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

"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.
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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.