Is world politics evolutionary learning?
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Organization
- Vol. 44 (1) , 1-24
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300004628
Abstract
The claim is advanced for recognizing evolutionary learning as the generative principle of world politics. Immanuel Kant was the first to specify a “natural” process leading toward “perpetual peace.” The long cycle, seen as the process of structural change. is explained with the help of a Parsonian learning model and a social evolutionary model and is argued to be coupled with the Kantian process. The long cycle defines the agenda for change in the major institutional complexes of world politics and deepens our understanding of the conditions for the control of global war.Keywords
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