Will the Political Scientist Fill the Void?

Paul W. Walter
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Paul W. Walter: Western Reserve University and Western Reserve University Law School

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1961, vol. 336, issue 1, 137-143

Abstract: Political science has not demonstrated the abil ity to develop new concepts and to receive new ideas that the physical sciences have. The moment in history has arrived at which it is necessary for the survival of human civilization for political scientists to seek and to find a new and relevant approach to the situations which have taken the nations of the world to the brink of internecine war. The principal threat to world peace and to the development of world law and gov ernment necessary to obtain and maintain peace is the massive armament by the nations totally disproportionate to their re spective needs for insuring internal order. The United Na tions, as a means for controlling world affairs peacefully, has disappointed early expectations. It has demonstrated, how ever, a capacity for constitutional development not unlike that of the United States. If it can meet the current crises con fronting it, it could yet rise to the challenge of providing the shield of world order behind which nations may disarm. Be fore the mistake in judgment occurs which will bring world holocaust, political scientists and leaders can become the found ing fathers of a world order by developing methods to enable mankind to convert his physical assets to peaceful uses and to obtain for future generations of the world the legacy of free dom, stability, and peace similar to that which our Founding Fathers established for the United States of America.

Date: 1961
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