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Article: Reports from University of California describe recent advances in behavior.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "This article develops a theory of relational authority in the most unpromising setting of international relations. Relational authority locates legitimacy in a social contract between a ruler, who provides a social order of value to the ruled, and the ruled, who comply with the ruler's commands necessary to the production of that order."
"International politics are nearly universally assumed to be an anarchy devoid of authority. Through the lens of relational authority, however, one sees that relations between states are better described as a rich variety of hierarchies in which dominant states legitimately ...