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Gilpin, Robert George was born on July 2, 1930 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Robert George and Beatrice (Sandspra) Gilpin.
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War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential growth of power in the international system and the result of this unevenness. A shift in the balance of power - economic or military - weakens the foundations of the existing system, because those gaining power see the increasing benefits and the decreasing cost of changing the system. The result, maintains Gilpin, is that actors seek to alter the system through territorial, political, or economic expansion until the marginal costs of continuing change are greater than the marginal benefits. When states develop the power to change the system according to their interests they will strive to do so- either by increasing economic efficiency and maximizing mutual gain, or by redistributing wealth and power in their own favour.
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After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions--the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund--were threatened by growing economic nationalism in the United States, as demonstrated by increased trade protection and growing budget deficits. In this book, Robert Gilpin argues that American power had been essential for establishing these institutions, and waning American support threatened the basis of postwar cooperation and the great prosperity of the period. For Gilpin, a great power such as the United States is essential to fostering international cooperation. Exploring the relationship between politics and economics first highlighted by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gilpin demonstrated the close ties between politics and economics in international relations, outlining the key role played by the creative use of power in the support of an institutional framework that created a world economy. Gilpin's exposition of the in.uence of politics on the international economy was a model of clarity, making the book the centerpiece of many courses in international political economy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when American support for international cooperation is once again in question, Gilpin's warnings about the risks of American unilateralism sound ever clearer.
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Gilpin, Robert George was born on July 2, 1930 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Son of Robert George and Beatrice (Sandspra) Gilpin.
Bachelor, U. Vermont, 1952; Master of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1960.
Fellow, Harvard University, 1960-1961; lecturer, Columbia University, 1961-1962; faculty, Princeton University, since 1962; professor political science, Princeton University, 1970-1998; Eisenhower professor international affairs, Princeton University, 1975-1998; professor emeritus, Princeton University, since 1998. Member President's Advisory Group Technology and the Economy, 1975-1976.
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Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1954-1957. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Political Science Association (Vice-President 1984-1985).
Married Jean Millis, August 13,1955. Children— Linda, Elizabeth, Robert.