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A Voyage of the Mind, 1930–1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Karl W. Deutsch
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POLITICS WAS A CONCERN OF MINE SINCE I WAS SIX YEARS OLD. It did not start in the library. It began a decade before 1930 in the campaign meetings of my mother who was one of the first women Members of Parliament in the Czechoslovak Republic, for the Social Democratic Party in a Sudeten German workingclass constituency. By 1930 I was 18 years old and an active member of the youth organization of that party. In that year I saw Nazi parades in Berlin, prior to the Nazis’ first big success in the German elections of that year. Soon there were Nazi meetings – later thinly disguised as Henlein party meetings – in the Sudetenland and in Prague where I became a student at the German University and where my family and I belonged to the German minority. Problems of the labour movement, depression, unemployment, nationalism and Fascism were real events unrolling before my eyes.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 15 , Issue 3-4 , 01 July 1980 , pp. 323 - 345
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1980

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1 Chamberlin, E. H., The Theory of Monopolistic Competition, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1933; Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, 3rd ed., London, Macmillan, 1936; Deutsch, K. W., ‘Nationalistic Intolerance and Economic Interest’, in Deutsch, Tides Among Nations, New York, Free Press, 1979, pp. 44–64.Google Scholar

2 Now reprinted, with the abbreviated notes, in Tides Among Nations, pp. 35–43.

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11 Now in Tides Among Nations, pp. 13–34.

12 Deutsch, K. W., Burell, S. B. et al., Political Community and the North Atlantic Area, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1957, 1968, and also New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. See also the essays in Part III of Tides Among Nations, pp. 179–294.Google Scholar

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14 See Brown, Harcourt et al., Science and the Creative Spirit, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1958.Google Scholar

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18 See Deutsch, K. W. and Eckstein, Alexander, ‘National Industrialization and the Declining Share of the International Economic Sector, 1890–1959’, World Politics, 13:2, 01 1961, pp. 267–99;Google Scholar Deutsch, K. W., Bliss, C. I. and Eckstein, A., ‘Population, Sovereignty and the Share of Foreign Trade’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 10: 4, 07 1962, pp. 353–66;Google Scholar Deutsch, K. W. and Russett, B. M., ‘International Trade and Political Independence’, American Behavioral Scientist, 6: 7, 03 1963, pp. 18–20;Google Scholar Deutsch, K. W. and Merritt, R. L., Transnational Communications and the International System’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 442, 1979, pp. 84–97.Google Scholar

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20 See e. g. Kochen, M. and Deutsch, K. W., Decentralization: Sketches Toward a Rational Theory, Cambridge, MA, Oelschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1980.Google Scholar

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22 See note 17, above.

23 See note 10, above.

24 See Deutsch, K. W. and Foltz, W. J. (eds), Nation‐Building, New York, Atherton Press, 1963, 2nd ed., 1966.Google Scholar

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28 Cf. Deutsch, K. W. and Wildenmann, R. (eds), Mathematical Political Analysis: From Methods to Substance, Munich, Olzog, 1975.Google Scholar

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31 David Singer, J. (ed.), Correlates of War I and II, New York, Free Press, 1979; Singer, J. D. and Small, , The Wages of War, New York, Free Press, 1974; Deutsch, M. and Singer, K. W., ‘Multipolar Power Systems and International Stability’, World Politics, 16: 3, 04 1964, pp. 390–406; Deutsch, K. W., Singer, J. D. and Smith, Keith, ‘The Organizing Efficiency of Theories’, The American Behavioral Scientist, 9: 2, 10 1965, pp. 30–3.Google Scholar Cf. also Singer, J. D. (ed.), Human Behavior and International Politics, Chicago, Rand‐McNally, 1965.Google Scholar

32 See Platt, John R., The Step to Man, New York, Wiley, 1966;Google Scholar Deutsch, K. W., Platt, J. R. and Senghaas, D., ‘Conditions Favoring Major Advances in the Social Sciences’, Science, 3970 6 02 1971 , pp. 450–59;Google ScholarPubMed Platt, J. R., ‘Eight Major Evolutionary Jumps Today’, in Markovits, A. and Deutsch, K. W. (eds), Fear of Science vs. Trust of Science, Cambridge, MA, Oelschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1980 (forthcoming).Google Scholar

33 E. g., Rapoport, A. and Chammah, A., Prisoners’ Dilemma, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1965.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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35 See e. g., Deutsch, K. W. and Senghaas, D., ‘The Steps to War’, in Mcgowan, P. J. (ed.), Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, vol. 1, London and Beverly Hills, CA, Sage,1973, pp. 275–329;Google Scholar and ‘The Fragile Sanity of States’, in Kilson, M. (ed.), New States in the Modern World, Harvard University Press, 1975; pp. 482–98;CrossRefGoogle Scholar Gantzel, K. J. (ed.), Herrschaft und Befreiung in der Weltgesellschaft, Frankfurt a/M‐New York, Campus Verlag, 1975.Google Scholar

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37 I was fascinated by the results of Werner Kaltefleiter’s earlier computer simulation of alternative electoral systems for the Federal Republic of Germany, which showed that neither of the two main parties could expect any significant gains from any of the proposed other systems of voting and representation, For other examples of work, significant for me, see Narr, W. ‐D., Theoriebegriffe und Systemtheorie, Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1969,Google Scholar and W. ‐D. Narr and F. Naschold, Theorie der Demokratie, Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1971; D. Senghaas, note 34, above; Zapf, W., ‘Some Problems of Time Series Analysis in Research on Modernization’, Social Science Information, 10, 1971, pp. 53–102 Google Scholar

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40 For a survey of some of these models, see Problems of World Modeling (note 38, above); Deutsch, K. W., ‘Political Science in the Age of World Modeling’, and Brian Pollins, ‘A Survey of Fourteen Formal Models of International Trade’, International Institute for Comparative Social Research, Science Centre Berlin, Paper forthcoming.Google Scholar

41 See Deutsch, K. W., ‘On Inequality and Limited Growth: Some World Political Effects’, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 19, 12 1975, pp. 381–98.Google Scholar

42 Bremer, Stuart A. et al., Weltmodellstudien: Wachstumsprobleme und Lösungsprobleme, Athenäum, Hain, Scriptor, Hanstein, Kronsberg/Ts., 1980;Google Scholar Merritt, R. L. (ed.), Innovation in the Public Sector, forthcoming.Google Scholar

43 See note 39, above.

44 See notes 23 and 42, above, and Merritt, R. L. (ed.), Innovation in the Public Sector, forthcoming.Google Scholar