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Book SynopsisBy succinctly integrating power transition theory and national policy, this outstanding team of scholars explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. Blending quantitative and traditional analyses, theory and practice, history and informed predictions, Power Transitions draws a map of the new world that will stimulate, provoke, and offer solutions.
Authors include: Mark Abdollohian, Carole Alsharabati, Brian Efird, Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, Allan C. Stam III, Ronald L. Tammen, and A.F.K Organski.
Table of ContentsTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments A Tribute to A.F.K. OrganskiPart I. Foundations1. Power Transition Theory for the Twenty-first Century2. Power Transition Theory Tested in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesPart II. Applications3. Regional Applications: Multiple Hierarchies4. Security Applications: Deterrence and Proliferation5. Economic Applications: Growth, Trade, and DemocracyPart III. Policy Changes6. The Realignment Challenge: The Expansion of NATO7. The Asian Challenge8. The World to Come Notes Index About the Authors
