Publisher's Synopsis
In order to understand better the external influences on foreign policy, the contributors to this book use concepts from the world-system perspective of Immanuel Wallerstein and from the work of George Modelski. In examinations of general questions such as the foreign policy role of socialist states in the world-system, or of specific topics such as US capital control programmes in the 60s and 70s, the authors display a new sensitivity to economic forces, social change, and the systemic forces that condition the behaviour of states.
′...the authors have contributed much to the growing scholarly emphasis on linking up economic and political analysis, and to the efforts to develop a plausible world-systems approach that can help us to understand the contemporary world and perhaps offer some meaningful glimpses into the future of our global state system. It is a book that can be highly recommended for graduate classes in the social sciences and for careful study by foreign policy and international relations specialists.′ -- Perspective ,Vol 13 No 4, May/June 1984
