Robert Gilpin - Power Quotes

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The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

Robert Gilpin

Does the functioning of the world economy tend to concentrate wealth and power, or does it tend to diffuse it?

Robert Gilpin

Both the control of territory and the political domination of one state over another have profound consequences for international economic relations. However... market power or economic power has itself become a principal means by which states seek to organize and manipulate the international division of labor to their own advantage.

Robert Gilpin

Ultimately... the hierarchy of prestige in an international system rests on economic and military power.

Robert Gilpin

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

Robert Gilpin

A precondition for political change lies in the disjuncture between the existing social system and the redistribution of power toward those actors who would benefit most from a change in the system.

Robert Gilpin