U. S. FOREIGN RELATIONS: CONFLICT, COOPERATION, AND ATTRIBUTE DISTANCES

Abstract

The foreign relations of the United States are considered in terms of six hypotheses based on a linkage pre-theory, a social status theory, a distance theory, a power transition theory, integration-regional findings, and propositions about geographic distance. These hypotheses are linked together by the notion of a distance vector, interpreted in terms of the constructs of attribute space, behavior space, and dyads, and developed within a geometric framework called field theory. To test this field theory and hypotheses subsumed by it, data on nineteen foreign relations and actions of the U. S., ranging from tourists and treaties to negative communications and sanctions, toward 81 object nations were correlated with the distances between the U. S. and other nations on economic development, size or power bases, political orientation, socio-cultural dimensions, and geographic distance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0710779

Entities

People

  • Rudolph Rummel

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Economic Development
  • Factor Analysis
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Treaties

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Geodesy
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space