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Twilight of the titans : great power decline and retrenchment / Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent.
LIBRA JZ1312 .M34 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macdonald, Paul K., author.
- Parent, Joseph M., author.
- Series:
- Cornell studies in security affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great powers.
- Hegemony.
- Regression (Civilization).
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Desperate times, desperate measures: debating decline
- Parry to thrust : the logic of retrenchment
- The fates of nations : decline by the numbers
- Overview of the cases
- A hegemon hits snooze : 1872 Great Britain
- A hegemon wakes up : 1908 Great Britain
- A descending whirligig : 1888 Russia
- Les jeux sont faits : 1893 France
- Tsar power : 1908 Russia
- The utopian background : 1925 France
- Conclusion : retrenchment as reloading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: MacDonald, Paul K. Twilight of the titans.
- ISBN:
- 9781501717093
- 150171709X
- OCLC:
- 995847240
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