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The great powers and global struggle 1490-1990 /
In The Great Powers and Global Struggle, Karen A. Rasler and William R. Thompson focus on two themes: the rise and fall as well as the relative decline of major world powers over the past five hundred years, and the way in which these processes have set the stage for the outbreak of global war. Thei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. An Overview of the Argument: Ascent, Decline, Transition, and War; 2. Tracing the Rise and Fall of Regional and Global Powers; 3. Global and Regional Transitions; 4. Concentration and Transitional Warfare; 5. Innovation, Decline, and War; 6. Perspectives on Overconsumption and Decline; 7. The Case against Tradeoffs as a Primary Cause of Decline; 8. Observations on Overextension and Territorial Traps; 9. The Model Recapitulated; 10. The Future of Transitional Warfare; Appendixes.
- A. The Army Data and SourcesB. Identifying Systemic Wars; C. Cross-Correlations, Time Series Regressions, and Coefficients Derived from Vector Autoregression; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.