In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.

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.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.