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Mitranian functionalism: possible or impossible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1985

Robert I. Mclaren
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In the April 1984 issue of this journal, Mark Imber resurrected Mitranian functionalism. His well-reasoned elucidation of David Mitrany's writings and of the writings of Mitrany's major critics ended in five propositions for further research. Unfortunately, one cannot be sure that these five propositions represent Mitranian functionalism or a new species of functionalism, Imberian functionalism. In any case, the five propositions hardly advance our knowledge of functionalism, even if they are only intended to show the possibility of functionalism's existence.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1985, pp. 139 - 152
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1985

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