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What has to be understood about Modelski's model for explaining the unfolding of world politics in an era of strong nationalism is that there is an accretion of incident and feeling in actions and counteractions that results at key points in history in major wars. Modelski sees patterns of behavior and political thought that arc ineluctably toward conflict among nations because of patterns of ambition and activity within nations and because individual nations are sovereign and not subject to an overriding authority. Since the onset of nationalism after the High Renaissance, today's global political system, says Modelski, "never was and is not today a world state (or an imperial structure on the Roman model) whose center authoritatively and administratively oversees all the other world political systems (1978, p. 215). Modelski examines and rejects Wallerstein's Marxist thesis, that "capitalism created the world system" of the modern period and that the economic system governs both violent

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ites world-power status per se, as exemplified in a series of empires or world leaders that from time to time competed for and essentially regulated dominance and interplay of the political economy, and as specifically amplified with regard to leadership of world trade, as the nexus of formation of global political arrangements. [S]ince 1500 four states have in turn played a dominant role in the management of global interdependence and therefore fit the description of a world power: Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. In a fairly regular and yet well spaced-out pattern each world power has been succeeded by another in a process that recalls, though it is not to be confused with, the long-term succession of political regimes in a political system lacking regularized elections. One long cycle corresponds to each global power, except in the case of Britain, who has experienced two such cycles (Modelski, 1978, p. 217). In effect, according to Modelski, the global dynamics associated with empire building developed a life of their own, and their playing out on the world scene affected the way in which politics developed in the modern period. On this view, the economic argument developed by Wallerstein is contain
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