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Toward Controlling International Change: A Personal Plea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Ernst B. Haas
Ernst B. Haas
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University of California
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Extract

In the world of Isaac Asimov the computer programmer is God: he selects the facts and relationships between facts from which as yet unknown correlations flow; thus he rules the world by predicting and manipulating change, and thus he maintains stability.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , October 1964 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1964

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1 Possible Nonmilitary Scientific Developments and Their Potential Impact on Foreign Policy Problems of the United States, A Study Prepared at the Request of the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 86th Congress, ist Session (Washington, GPO, 1959), 1 (emphasis supplied).Google Scholar

2 The Future as History (New York 1961), 188–89.Google Scholar