Abstract
When Morton Kaplan published System and Process in International Politics in 1957, the field of International Relations (IR) acknowledged it immediately as a groundbreaking contribution to the theorization of world politics. Kaplan proposed a systems approach to international processes that would enable IR to break with its loosely defined political-philosophical tradition and establish a solid, empirical basis for studying a particularly complex realm of reality. This work is still referenced today in IR textbooks, and almost half a century after its first publication the European Consortium for Political Research reprinted it as one of the first three volumes in its Classics series (Kaplan 2005 [1957]).
Parts of this essay appeared in an article published by International Studies Quarterly (Hamati-Ataya 2012), and are reprinted here with permission from the International Studies Association and Wiley-Blackwell.
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© 2014 Morton A. Kaplan and Inanna Hamati-Ataya
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Hamati-Ataya, I. (2014). Introduction The Unknown Kaplan: Synoptic Knowledge after Postmodernism. In: Transcending Postmodernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358578_1
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