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Quotes from War and Change in World Politics — Robert Gilpin

1930–2018 United States

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How can the human race, whether for selfish or more cosmopolitan ends, understand and control the seemingly blind forces of history?

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Every dominant state, and particularly an empire, promotes a religion or ideology that justifies its domination over other states in the system.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

It would be premature to suggest that the nation-state is dead or dying.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Ultimately...the hierarchy of prestige in an international system rests on economic and military power.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Until the modern era there was no single international system, but rather several international systems, with little or no contact with another.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

A precondition for political change lies in the disjuncture between the existing social system and the redistribution of power toward those actors who would benefit most from a change in the system.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

The relative stability of the system is... largely determined by its capacity to adjust to the demands of the actors affected by changing political and environmental conditions.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

One of the principal functions of war, and particularly... hegemonic war, is to determine the international hierarchy of prestige and thereby determine which states will in effect govern the international system.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Gilpin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.