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Integration and Disintegration on the North American Continent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Robert Gilpin
Robert Gilpin
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Professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.
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Although ours is an age of transnational economic and political forces, itis even more an age of intense and intensifying nationalism. In fact, taken as a whole, the twentieth century has been a time of political fragmentation and disintegration. Much of the handiwork of political integration that characterized the nineteenth century has been undone and much else is under severe strain. The empires and multiethnic states that formerly provided order and unity over much of the globe have been destroyed. Once stable societies like Belgium, Canada, and the United States have become subject to severe internal strain. Yet despite the prevalence of this phenomenon, very few political scientists have studied from a systematic perspective the process of political disintegration.

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Part IV. Integration, Institutions, and Bargaining
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International Organization , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1974 , pp. 851 - 874
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1974

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