The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic… - Robert Gilpin

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.

These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.