Rising Titans, Falling Giants : How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts /

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"Explores the strategies that rising powers adopt toward declining powers and asks why newly powerful states often choose not to take immediate advantage of a former power's weaknesses but rather support and manage that decline in a peaceable fashion"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shifrinson, Joshua R. Itzkowitz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Great powers.
Diplomatic relations.
Balance of power.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.
Équilibre des puissances > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Grandes puissances > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Balance of power > History > 20th century.
Great powers > History > 20th century.
United States.
Soviet Union.
URSS > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > URSS.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Predation theory
  • A formerly Great Britain : predicting U.S. and Soviet strategy
  • The American and Soviet response to Britain's decline
  • Watching the Soviet Union decline : assessing change and predicting U.S. strategy
  • U.S. strategy and the decline of the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion : rising powers, the fate of declining states, and the future of great power politics.

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