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The rise and fall of world orders / Torbjørn L. Knutsen.
LIBRA D31 .K68 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knutsen, Torbjørn L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics.
- History, Modern.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1999.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the rise and fall of great powers 1
- Part 1 Patterns of the past
- 1 The wave of great wars 21
- Wars and wealth 22
- Wars, wealth and foundation myths 25
- Wars, values and global expansion 32
- Dawns of new world orders 37
- 2 The phase of hegemony 41
- On punitive pre-eminence 41
- On remunerative pre-eminence 45
- On normative pre-eminence 49
- Hegemony 59
- 3 The phase of challenge 73
- Challenge, response and Indian summers 73
- The cost of pre-eminence I: the home front 77
- The cost of pre-eminence II: the world arena 80
- Challenge 85
- 4 The phase of disruptive competition 90
- The changing international order 91
- Increasing defence costs 98
- Domestic unrest 106
- Unravelling of old orders 122
- Decline and fall of great powers 131
- 5 The rise and fall of world orders 140
- Cyclical patterns of modern world orders 141
- Transaction costs and public spheres 154
- Secular trends in modern world history 161
- Cycles, trends and the future of international relations 167
- Part 2 Deja vu
- 6 Wars to end all wars 173
- Domestic upheavals 174
- Foreign wars 176
- War and material might 179
- Forging a new world order 183
- 7 Pax Americana 189
- On military pre-eminence 190
- On economic pre-eminence 191
- On normative pre-eminence 193
- American hegemony 203
- Hegemony and Podsnappery 209
- 8 Challenges, responses and nuclear weapons 219
- World economic challenges 220
- Interstate challenges 221
- Normative challenges 230
- Conclusions: challenges 235
- 9 The end of US hegemony? 238
- Changes in the world economy and US stagnation 239
- Interstate challenges and increasing defence costs 242
- Moral fragmentation 250
- American decline? 251
- Epilogue: and then there was one ... 259
- The contemporary world order cycle 260
- Secular trends of modern world politics 264
- The uncertain revival 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719040574
- 0719040582
- OCLC:
- 41469176
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