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Long cycle theory and international relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Richard Rosecrance
Richard Rosecrance
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Walter S. Carpenter Professor of International and Comparative Politics at Cornell University.
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International Organization , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , Spring 1987 , pp. 283 - 301
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1987

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1. The meaning of “secular” (that is, proceeding in one particular direction) is directly opposed to that of “cyclical.”

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35. Ibid.

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