--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, what about more ethical systems being destroyed > by less ethical > systems? At the present time, the US is the lone > superpower, so it appears > that our system is inevitably the best. 25 years > ago, many bright people > thought the the triumph of Communism was an > inevitable result of the > historical dielectic in action.
To put that in perspective, even people who _weren't_ taken in by Communist rhetoric about the dialectic thought the USSR was winning the Cold War. Robert Gilpin's _War and Change in World Politics_, for my money the best non-Kenneth Waltz book of IR theory written in the last few decades - concludes with a chapter on how growing Soviet strength could lead to Soviet domination of the world, and the implications this would have for everyone else. IIRC he wrote the book in 1979 or 1980. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
