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Interdependence: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit
Cleveland, Harlan
20/1  (Fall 1977): 93-96

The article focuses on interdependence in the context of international relations. In international relations, interdependence is technologically, economically, politically, and morally inescapable. Along with everyone else in the world, Americans don't have to like it, but one do has to learn to live with it. Nuclear weapons are the clearest present danger to mankind's survival. Yet those who already have more than they need are building more of them, and a number of those who do not have them are keeping open the option to build or acquire them. Irreversible damage to the biosphere is clearly possible. Yet industrial and urban polluters continue to soil the air and the seas, and a nations yearn to industrialize and urbanize enough to add their fair share of pollutants to the global environment. There is a great deal of talk about meeting basic human need. Yet international aid, investment and development strategies still mostly help the rich and middle-income people in both rich and poor countries. Transnational enterprise is still the most effective agent of technology transfer.

 

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