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The Promise of Geocentric Politics

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SpiroHerbert J.World Politics: The Global System, The Dorsey Press, Homewood, Illinois, 1966, 345 pp. $6.75

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

George Modelski
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World Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , July 1970 , pp. 617 - 635
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1970

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References

1 Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations (New York 1966Google Scholar); see also Hoffmann, Stanley, The State of War: Essays on the Theory and Practice of International Politics (New York 1965Google Scholar), Chap. 1; Tucker, Robert W., “Peace and War,” World Politics, xvii (January 1965), 310CrossRefGoogle Scholar–33.

2 Rummel, Rudolph, “Indicators of Cross-National and International Patterns,” American Political Science Review, LXIII (March 1969), 128Google Scholar.

3 And reported in Knorr, Klaus and Rosenau, James N., eds., Contending Approaches to International Politics (Princeton 1969Google Scholar).

4 See also Modelski, George, “Simulations, ‘Realities,’ and International Relations Theory,” Simulation and Games (June 1970CrossRefGoogle Scholar).

5 Wight, Martin, “Why Is there no International Theory?” International Relations, xi (April 1960), 35–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 62.

6 Spiro's procedural politics brings to mind Confucianism, the political philosophy of the Chinese world state, with its emphasis upon ritual, manners, and correct behavior-the philosophy that grew out of revulsion from the chaos, disorder, and confusion of the period of the Warring States.

7 Spiro, 249, 121; the only document in the appendix to the book is the 1963 treaty to ban nuclear tests; why this particular document and not, say, the United Nations Charter, the Antarctic Treaty, the Austrian State Treaty, the Laotian Neutralization Agreements, or a dozen other equally significant items?

8 See correspondence in the American Political Science Review, LXII (December 1968Google Scholar), 1268, and LXIII (March 1969), 170–71.

9 It was in opposition to the Hegelian “system” that Kierkegaard formulated his existential philosophy.

10 “The Tortuous Evolution of the Multinational Corporation,” Columbia Journal of World Business, iv (January-February 1969), 9–18Google Scholar.