ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 opens with an outline of the empirical problematic – as described in the brief historical sketch on the development of the intellectual potential of the West that accompanied the differentiation of the world system into the centre and the periphery. The theoretical part begins with a presentation of the conceptualisation of power in international relations, which combines conventional and non-conventional constructivism, and then describes my own model of education and science as factors of a state’s international power, based on the general approach to power proposed by Guzzini (1993). The model, which is the object of this study, provides the foundation for the six main claims that are argued in the subsequent chapters.
