Functionalism and Interdependence

Contemporary international society has been described as an interdependent world. The most urgent problems confronting the world can no longer be solved within national boundaries, making the nation state obsolete. Eastby has contributed an important analytical study of functionalism and interdependence by tracing the core ideas of functionalism as enunciated by David Mitrany and interpretations by thinkers such as Hans Morgenthau and I.L. Claude.