The Rise and Demise of Hegemonic Powers in International Politics
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Köp båda 2 för 494 krTorbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace, wealth and power. The book counters the view that in...
Torbjorn L. Knutsen is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Trondheim. -- .
The 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.