Robert Gilpin: State

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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.”

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

“These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.”

Introduction, p. 4
The Political Economy of International Relations (1987)

“In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Nine, transformation Of The Global Economy, p. 349

“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.”

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

“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 8

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

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Seven, Dependence And Economic Development, p. 304

“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.”

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

“Every dominant state, and particularly an empire, promotes a religion or ideology that justifies its domination over other states in the system.”

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

“One of the principal functions of war, and particularly… hegemonic war, is to determine the international hierarchy of prestige and thereby determine which states will in effect govern the international system.”

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

“It would be premature to suggest that the nation-state is dead or dying.”

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

“Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Eight, International Finance, p. 308