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Theory of International Politics
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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7932 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global politics & International relations.read more
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Prediction in Macrosociology: The Case of the Soviet Collapse
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss sociological prediction, using geopolitical theory's successful prediction of the breakup of the Soviet Union as an example, provided both a theory and empirical information are available.
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Rethinking political structures: from ‘ordering principles’ to ‘vertical differentiation’ – and beyond
TL;DR: In this article, a five-part framework of the elements of political structures is proposed, which highlights the central place of ranking in international political structures, developing a tripartite account of ordering principles that identifies autarchic, single-hierarchic and heterarchic systems.
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The uses and misuses of uneven and combined development: an anatomy of a concept
TL;DR: This article examined the internal relations of "unevenness" and "combination" as presented by Trotsky and reworked by Rosenberg, and pointed out the dangers of analytical overextension found in Rosenberg's own ambiguous use of U&CD.
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Twenty Years of Institutional Liberalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine institutional liberalism through a lens provided by Carr's most famous book on international relations, The Twenty Years' Crisis, and point out three trends since the 1990s that may be associated with Institutional Liberalism: increasing legalization, trends toward more legalism and moralism, and a decline in the coherence of some international regimes.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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Introduction to cybernetics
TL;DR: This book contains the collected and unified material necessary for the presentation of such branches of modern cybernetics as the theory of electronic digital computers, Theory of discrete automata, theory of discrete self-organizing systems, automation of thought processes, theoryof image recognition, etc.