ABSTRACT
Tucker is a writer he had his seminar spend five or six weeks reading Leviathan and then another five or six reading Morton Kaplan's System and Process in International Politics. Tucker's interest in international law and Liska's interest in the informally institutionalized conditions of order in international relations, international law and organization seemed like the obvious choice. His modernity is a succession of ages the Renaissance, Classical; modern and postmodern ages each marked by abrupt transitions in what it is possible to think. System in Kaplan's System and Process meant six possible types of systems, drawn from history to explain that same history. He thought then that Kaplan was saved from circularity by positing system rules. In short, rules are linked in systems of rule. If rules distribute values, then rule systematically distributes privilege in favour of some subjects over others. IR is predicated on anarchy and thus lacks a distinctive subject.
