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freeuseoftheworksoftheirfathers.Weareverythankfulforthekindnessand
understandingofAnthonyMondon,sonofMortonA.Kaplan,anddaughtersof
KarlW.Deutsch:MargaretD.CarrollandMaryDeutschEdsall.Wewouldalso
liketothankthePolishdiplomatic-consularpersonnelintheUnitedStates–Piotr
SemeniukandGrażynaŻebrowska–forkindandeffectivemediation.Weare
alsogratefultoRobertKupieckifortheusefultiponhowtoorganisethesigningof
acontractintheuncommoncircumstancesthatwewereforcedtooperatein.For
providingaidinthemostcomplexnegotiations,wewouldliketothankKnudErik
Jørgensen,whogavehisrecommendationforourprojecttothepublisher,Graham
Allison,MichaelW.Doyle,andImmanuelWallerstein,whowaivedroyaltiesforthe
fragmentsoftheirworksusedinthisvolume.
Thegenerosityofthesepeople,thoughimpossibletooverstate,wouldnothave
sufficedtoensurethecompletionoftheentireproject,wasitnotfortheinvolve-
mentofthosewhohelpedusnegotiatethecostofcopyrights.Themarketpricesfor
publishinglicencesareentirelyatoddswiththePolishrealitiesandthecapabilities
ofouracademicmilieu.Inmanycases,thehelpwereceivedincommunicating
andexplicatingtheideabehindourprojectenabledaradical,sometimesmore
thantenfold,decreaseoftheoriginalprice.Fortheirpersistenceasnegotiatorsand
fortheunderstandingofourpredicament,wewouldliketothankKrzysztofPelc
ofMcGillUniversityaswellasJonPevehouseandErikVoeten,academiceditors
of“InternationalOrganization”,DavidMainwaring,editoratCambridgeUniversity
Press,andPhyllisBendellof“Daedalus”.TotheScholarpublishinghouseweoffer
thanksfornamingpreferentialpricesforthefragmentsthathadbeenpreviously
publishedinitsimprint,nowreprintedinthisvolume.
Wewouldalsoliketothankallthosewhokeptuscompanyhere,inPoland,
andprovidedsupport,consultation,andsuggestionsforthefinalversionofthelist
ofcontentsthatwehavedreamedup.
Gratitudeisowedourstudents,currentlyexcellentgraduatesininternational
relations:KamilSmogorzewskiandGabrielaBędkowska,whoverifiedthenumber
ofcitationsforspecifictitlesindatabasesandofferedsupportinotherorganisational
matters,helpingusshortentheinitiallistofimportantpublications.
WewouldalsoliketothankalloftheemployeesoftheInstituteofInternational
RelationsattheUniversityofWarsawwhofoundtimetorespondtotheonline
surveywesentthem,askingthemtonamethemostimportanttextswithinour
discipline.Wereceivedresponsesfromthirty-ninepeople,mostofwhomcom-
pletedthesurvey,whilefivedeliveredtheirsuggestionsbymailorsharedthemin
privateconversations.Thislistincludes(inalphabeticalorder):AgnieszkaAleksy-
-Szucsich,BolesławBalcerowicz,AgnieszkaBógdał-Brzezińska,JerzyCiechański,Alicja
Curanović,SylwesterGardocki,ŁukaszGołota,EdwardHaliżak,DorotaHeidrich,
