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Explain how far Deutsch’s model explains the framework of international interdependence. Do you think that the processes of interdependence and integration have grown steadily in the post-Cold War globalization trajectory?

  • UPSC 2009
  • 60 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Karl W. Deutsch, the pioneer of the communications (transactionalist) approach, argued in Nationalism and Social Communication (1953) and Political Community and the North Atlantic Area (1957) that political community is built from the density of social exchange. His model explains well how interdependence produces peace, but poorly why it also produces leverage and conflict; and…

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  • Has integration grown steadily since 1991?
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