Abstract: During the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s it began to be argued in the field of International Relations that the nature of international politics and the structure of the international system was undergoing a transformation. It was argued, in particular, that the division between international and domestic politics was breaking down and that, as a consequence, not only were the boundaries separating states dissolving, but also, that international politics was becoming domesticated in the process (Hanreider, 1978; Morse, 1970; Wagner, 1974). These developments were associated specifically with the evolution of transnationalism and interdependence and the analysts who focused on these putatively new features of the international system came to be labelled as pluralists. Initially, pluralists asserted that because state boundaries were becoming increasingly permeable it was no longer possible to understand international relations simply by studying the interactions among governments. Pluralists wished to focus on all the transactions which take place across state boundaries and many were committed to the view that these transactions would envelop states generating what Haas (1969) called a ‘tangle of hope’ within which it would be increasingly difficult for states to engage in war.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-06-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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