1987, ISBN: 9780394546742

New York, Random House, XXV, 677 p.: Maps. Half cloth with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the… Mehr…

New York, Random House, XXV, 677 p.: Maps. Half cloth with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag teilweise verschmutzt, mit Randläsuren, kleinere, leichte Verschmutzungen auf Buchschnitt, sonst gut und innen sauber / dust jacket partly soiled, with marginal tears, minor, slight soiling on book edges, otherwise good and clean inside. - Why is it that throughout history some nations gain power while others lose it? This question is not only of historical interest, but also important for understanding today?s world as the new century dawns, for just as the great empires of the past flourished and fell, will today?s?and tomorrow?s?empires rise and fall as well. In this wide-ranging analysis of global politics over the past five centuries, Yale historian Paul Kennedy focuses on the critical relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires. Nations project their military power according to their economic resources and in defense of their broad economic interests. But, Kennedy argues, the cost of projecting that military power is more than even the largest economies can afford indefinitely, especially when new technologies and new centers of production shift economic power away from established Great Powers?hence the rise and fall of nations. Professor Kennedy begins this story around the year 1500, when a combination of economic and military-technological breakthroughs so strengthened the nation-states of Europe that soon they prevailed over the great empires of the East; but European dynastic and religious rivalries, along with new technologies, made it impossible for any single power to dominate the continent. From the campaigns of Emperor Charles V to the struggles against Napoleonic France, victory repeatedly went to the economically strong side, while states that were militarily top heavy usually crashed to eventual defeat. This is a pattern, Professor Kennedy shows, that also applied in the two world wars of the present century, where superior economic and technological resources twice defeated the German war machine. In what will probably be the most widely discussed part of this book, Professor Kennedy devotes his closing chapters to an analysis of Great Power politics since 1945 through the year 2000. Here, too, his focus is not only on the military abilities and policies of the leading states, but also on those profound shifts in the world?s productive balances that?as in the Renaissance?cause certain Great Powers to rise as others fall. Professor Kennedy?s discussion of the implications of these changes for the United States, the Soviet Union, the countries of western Europe, and the emerging Asian powers of China and Japan makes this one of the most important political studies of recent time. Both for the policy maker and the general public, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers transcends its historical scholarship. / Contents Acknowledgments Maps Tables and Charts Introduction STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD 1. The Rise of the Western World Ming China The Muslim World Two Outsiders?Japan and Russia The "European Miracle? 2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519-1659 The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc International Comparisons War, Money, and the Nation-State 3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660-1815 The "Financial Revolution? Geopolitics The Winning of Wars, 1660-1763 The Winning of Wars, 1763-1815 STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA 4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815-1885 The Eclipse of the Non-European World Britain as Hegemon? The "Middle Powers? The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power The United States and the Civil War The Wars of German Unification Conclusions 5. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ?Middle Powers?: Part One, 1885-1918 The Shifting Balance of World Forces The Position of the Powers, 1885-1914 Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890-1914 Total War and the Power Balances, 1914-1918 6. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ?Middle Powers?: Part Two, 1919-1942 The Postwar International Order The Challengers The Offstage Superpowers The Unfolding Crisis, 1931-1942 STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY AND TOMORROW 7. Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943-1980 "The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force? The New Strategic Landscape The Cold War and the Third World The Fissuring of the Bipolar World The Changing Economic Balances, 1950 to 1980 8. To the Twenty-first Century History and Speculation China's Balancing Act The Japanese Dilemma The EEC?Potential and Problems The Soviet Union and Its "Contradictions? The United States: The Problem of Number One in Relative Decline Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780394546742Politik 1987, [PU: Grove Press]<

1988, ISBN: 9780394546742

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