Robert Gilpin: Power

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“Powerful groups set constraints on and may even determine the actions of state authority. They constitute the society that is protected by the state; their particular concept of justice reigns. The definition and functioning of property rights tend to advance their interest and welfare. …the basic domestic function of the state is to define and protect property rights of individuals and groups. …The primary external function of the state is to protect the property rights and personal security of its members vis-à-vis the citizens and actions of other states.”

Robert Gilpin

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Justice , Personality

“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.”

Robert Gilpin

p, 125
War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Change

“The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Three, Dynamics Of Political Economy, p. 109

Time , Help

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

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 14

World , Wealth

“A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 23

“The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.”

Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Four, International Money matters, p. 170

Dreams , Nature

“Both the control of territory and the political domination of one state over another have profound consequences for international economic relations. However… market power or economic power has itself become a principal means by which states seek to organize and manipulate the international division of labor to their own advantage.”

Robert Gilpin

p, 125
War and Change in World Politics (1981)

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

Robert Gilpin

War and Change in World Politics (1981)