Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis

1 Of course, others have been criticized for a failure to incorporate an explanation of the evolution of the modern nation-state system into theories of world politics. See John Ruggie , “Continuity and Transformation in the World Policy,” World Politics (January 1983).

2 Admittedly, this is a pessimistic view. For a more optimistic view of the potential for integration, and the progress already made, in one subfield of politic science see John S. Odell , “Understanding International Trade Policies: An Emerging Synthesis,” World Poltics (October 1990): 139–67.

3 Richard K. Ashley and R. B. J. Walker , “Speaking the Language of Exile: Dissident Thought in International Relations,” International Studies Quarterly (September 1990): 261–62.