Interdependence and Security

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Hugh MacDonald , 'Strategic Studies', p. 333 in Journal of International Studies — Millennium, Special Issue: The Study of International Relations , Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 1987.

The discussion continues, but the theory developed in Nye and Keohane's 'Power and Interdependence' stands out already as a seminal study, and the same goes for the contributions of James N. Rosenau. See Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence. World Politics in Transition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977; James N. Rosenau, The Study of Global Interdependence. Essays on the Transnationalisation of World Affairs. London, New York: Pinter/Nichols, 1980; and The Study of Political Adaptation, London, New York: Pinter/Nichols, 1981.

'Si vis pacem, para bellum'. See Hylke Tromp, 'Unstable Peace; Nuclear Deterrence', Review of International Affairs, Belgrade, No. 886, 5. III. 1987 .

See e.g. Norman Angell, The Great Illusion. A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage. London, 1910, and Ramsey Muir, The Interdependent World and its Problems, London, 1933.

Keohane/Nye, o.c. p. 29.

Kenneth Boulding , Stable Peace. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.

Charles E. Merriam , Systematic Politics. Chicago, 1945, p. 277 ff., quoted in Jaap Nobel , 'The Paradigm Debate in International Relations', in this issue of BPP.

Hans J. Morgenthau , Politics among Nations. The Struggle for Power and Peace, first edition, Chicago 1948.

Keohane/Nye, o.c. p. 24.

Apart from the titles mentioned above see especially: Michael Banks (ed.), Conflict in World Society , 1984. John W. Burton , World Society. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1972 . Richard N. Cooper , The Economics of Interdependence: Economic Policy in the Atlantic Community. New York: McGraw-Hill,1968. R. J. Barry Jones and Peter Willetts (eds.), Interdependence on Trial. Studies in the Theory and Reality of Contemporary Interdependence. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Margot Light and A.J.R. Groom (eds.), International Relations: A Handbook of Current Theory. London: Pinter, 1985. Richard W. Mansbach and John A. Vasquez , In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Robert D. McKinlay and Richard Little , Global Problems and World Order. London: Pinter , 1986. Bruce Russett and Harvey Starr , World Politics: the Menu for Choice. Oxford: Freeman , 1985 (2nd ed.). Raymond Vernon , Sovereignty at Bay: the Multinational Spread of US Enterprises. New York: Basic Book Publications, 1971. Kenneth N. Waltz , Theory of International Politics. Reading Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979 .