Dialectical Foundations of Global Disparities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6274965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hayward R Alker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2600211 |
| OpenAlex | W2320487509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
This article applies a variant of the dialectical concern with the unity of opposites to the problems of continuity and change in global disparities. Based on a "North versus South" axis roughly indicating levels of inanimate energy use or technological development, and the modifying significance of "East versus West" capitalist and socialist modes of production, four contending, interpenetrating systems of global order are proposed as appropriate units for such inquiry: capitalist power-balancing, Soviet socialism, corporatist-authoritarianism, and collective self-reliance. Recent historical conditioning factors affecting more or less egalitarian development choices, in addition to class conflicts, include major world wars, and relatively late national politicoeconomic development. Lenin's 16-point restatement of Hegelian dialectics serves as a summary frame for the major hypotheses of this paper and a methodological critique of much North American research and teaching on world order and global disparities
Authoritarianism · Class (philosophy · Communism · Contradiction · Democracy · Dialectic · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Neoclassical economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Socialism · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Toward a Broadened Theory of Preference Formation and the Diffusion of Innovations
The Dialectics of World Order
Anthropology and West African Development
Contested Identity and Foreign Policy
Dialectical Reflections on Transformations of Global Security during the Long Twentieth Century
Political Geography
Geography, War and Peace
National ideology and IR theory
Theories of international regimes
International organization
The poverty of neorealism
War talk as strategic ontology
Three Modes of Economism
Problems of Democratizing Global Governance
Towards a social-relational dialectic for world politics
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |