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Science 31 July 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3944, pp. 441 - 448
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3944.441
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Technological Strategies and National Purpose

Domestic and foreign developments necessitate a new relationship

Robert Gilpin 1

1 Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

It would be presumptuous to suggest that economic and technological forces will determine the course of domestic or international affairs. In the last analysis, passions rule the world. Nonetheless, to a degree perhaps unparalleled in the past, economic and technological considerations will shape the ways in which political interests and conflicts seek their expression and work themselves out. In a world where nuclear weaponry has inhibited the use of military power and where social and economic demands play an inordinate role in political life, the choice, success, or failure of a nation's technological strategy will influence in large measure its place in the international pecking order and its capacity to solve its domestic problems.


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