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Book SynopsisDrawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers.
Table of ContentsThe rise and fall of great powers. Part I Patterns of the past: the wave of great wars - wars and wealth, wars, wealth and foundation myths, wars, values and global expansion, dawns of the new world orders; the phrase of hegemony - on punitive pre-eminence, on remunerative pre-eminence, on normative pre-eminence, hegemony; the phrase of challenge -challenge, response and Indian summers, the cost of pre-eminence I: the home front, the cost of pre-eminence II: the world scene, conclusion; the phrase of disruptive competition - the changing international order, increasing defence costs, domestic unrest, unravelling of old orders, decline and fall of great powers; the rise and fall of world orders -cyclical patterns of modern world orders, secular trends in modern world history, cycles trends and the future of international relations. Part II Deja vu: wars to end all wars - domestic upheavals, foreign wars, war and material might, forging a new world order; pax Americana - on military pre-eminence, on economic pre-eminence, on normative pre-eminence, American Hegemony, Hegemony and Podsnappery; challenges, responses and nuclear weapons - world economic challenges, interstate challenges, normative challenges, conclusions challenges; the end of US Hegemony? -changes in the world economy and US stagnation, interstate challenges and increasing defence costs, moral fragmentation, American decline? And then there was one - the contemporary world-order cycle, secular trends or modern world politics, the uncertain revival.
