ABSTRACT
Tracing theoretical development at the international level has become more difficult as centers of research outside the Atlantic area, such as Latin America, have grown, and the theoretical logjam of Marxism-Leri m has broken apart. The sources for a survey of this sort are more complete than might be expected. Numerous studies of the field of international relations have been undertaken since the 1930s, often with foundation support. American realism was also given a more optimistic cast in their hands, a position that Fox labeled “pragmatic meliorist.” The United States had developed a new synthesis—one as much European as American—but it seemed possible that the field would continue to develop in parallel across the Atlantic. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, the organizational dimensions of the field would change dramatically in most of Western Europe, producing an institutional model and an infrastructure for the field closer to that of the United States.
