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A double omission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

V. Kubálková  and
A. A. Cruickshank
V. Kubálková
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Queensland
A. A. Cruickshank
Affiliation:
Professor of Politics, University of Otago
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The title of the article is intended to focus the attention of Western writers on international relations theory upon two aspects of this rapidly growing research area. Rather than meeting with an incomprehensible neglect it is our argument that the aspects referred to might well be accorded one of the key places. Failure to do so, it our contention, when transferred from considerations of theoretical efficiency into the no less precarious realm of practical policy, might well have proportionately hazardous implications. We would beg forbearance, however, if within the necessarily limited scope of this article only a very perfunctory and sketchy outline of the meaning and implications of the omissions can be given. The sole purpose of this article is to provoke interest in these particular areas rather than to supply the deficiencies – a task which clearly could only be undertaken in the expanded context of a major work.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , October 1977 , pp. 286 - 307
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1977

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page 286 note 2. Obviously we do not refer here to the type of research that can be found in the works of a small but active (and also disparate) group sometimes referred to as neo-Marxists or neo-Leninists (according to their acknowledged source of inspiration). They produce what has been termed theories of imperialism (or theories of dependence or structural dependence) and in their analysis of the contemporary world, they employ elements of the works of Marx or Lenin: a different kind of exercise which in our opinion deserves more attention from the institutionalized Western theory of international relations.

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