The Transformation of Foreign Policies: Modernization, Interdependence, and Externalization
- 1 April 1970
- journal article
- Published by Project MUSE in World Politics
- Vol. 22 (3), 371-392
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2009602
Abstract
Foreign policy has been radically transformed by the revolutionary processes of modernization not only in the societies composing the Atlantic region, but wherever high levels of modernization exist. There is a quality about modernization that dissolves the effects of what have generally been considered the major determinants of foreign policy, whether these determinants are based on ideology and type of political system (democratic versus totalitarian foreign policies, for example), or power and capability (great-power versus smallpower policies). Wherever modernized societies exist, their foreign policies are more similar to each other than they are to the foreign policies of nonmodernized societies, regardless of the scale of the society or its type of government.Keywords
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