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Confessions of a premature constructivist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2006

LAWRENCE FREEDMAN
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Abstract

In his book Small World, David Lodge has the globe-trotting Maurice Zapp explain the revolution that had taken place in academic life during the 1970s. Two things had become more portable – information and people – and three things had made this possible ‘jet travel, direct-dialling telephone and the Xerox machine’. As long as you have access to these, Zapp explains, ‘you're plugged into the only university that actually matters – the global campus. A young man in a hurry can see the world by conference-hopping’. That is the theme of Lodge's book.

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Research Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 689 - 702
Copyright
2006 British International Studies Association

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Footnotes

Transcript of a plenary lecture given at the British International Studies Association, University of St. Andrews, December 2005.