Delineating Regional Subsystems: Visit Networks and the Middle Eastern Case

In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 213-235

Abstract

Reflecting the political climate and preoccupations of the time, structural examinations of international politics in the 1950s and early 1960s tended to focus on East-West interaction patterns and associated questions of global polarity and polarization. A major exception to this statement has been provided by an eclectic group of regional subsystem analyses which were, at least initially, intended to counteract the distortions perceived to be associated with an exclusively global, bipolar perspective.