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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?

— Robert Gilpin War and Change in World Politics (1981)

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Japanese refer to Europe as a "museum" and America as a "farm."

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Does the functioning of the world economy tend to concentrate wealth and power, or does it tend to diffuse it?

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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