1. The characteristics of an integrated world are a high level of coordination or integration among the major powers, including arms control and international aid programmes, and in the world generally a low level of conflict and of perceived, potential conflict.
2. Models of integrated worlds may be:
(a) Stability or status quo oriented, in which political and economic coordination exists mostly among the advanced powers and is designed mainly to secure and improve their position. There is effective exclusion of the developing countries from major influence as well as mixed prospects for their development.
(b) Development or aid-oriented, in which there is extensive and successful world organization for progressive and welfare purposes, with a subordination of politics and ideology to pragmatism.