Realism and World Politics
1700s (and then only by a few percentage points). The period between 1845 and 1950 includes several more transitions, although w ...
The most recent manifestation of this pattern may be the American attack on Iraq, urged on the Bush administration by many neoco ...
the two World Wars. ‘At issue in each of these great conflicts’, Gilpin writes, ‘was the governance of the international system’ ...
initiators’ motives for the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are con- gruent with power transition theories. The First W ...
occupation of Manchuria and invasion of China was classic imperialism and more influenced by domestic politics than strategic ca ...
country’s population. Even more devastating population losses can be recovered quickly. Russia lost perhaps 25 million citizens ...
prefer to make war against smaller, third parties and once-great but now seriously declining great powers – although they have f ...
measures for this entire period. The perception that the United States was the world’s leading power did not take hold until the ...
corroboration where history has failed to oblige. Power transition is not unique in this respect. Realism more generally may be ...
29 Angus Maddison, ‘Statistics on World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1–2006 AD’, http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/ (accessed ...
14 HEGEMONY, EQUILIBRIUM AND COUNTERPOWER A synthetic approach Cornelia Beyer Introduction This chapter^1 takes up what can be r ...
international developments in general and the complex reality of the US dominance in particular. Second, I will focus on a compa ...
strong support from others)^11 that unipolarity is a global reality.^12 However, this view has also faced opposition: Mearsheime ...
One can regard the material and the ideational as quite distinct; they are, however, closely interrelated and partly interdepend ...
usually involving the use of other non-natural material elements (such as weapons or the means of production) and resulting in m ...
resources in response to gains by the relevant other state. It also only applies over the longue durée. If understood normativel ...
reciprocity, tending towards negative, conflictual behaviour,^47 was at least partly applied,^48 as well as balancing. The outc ...
the United States created additional international institutions and supported existing ones, even though partly with less vigour ...
Also, in many states anti-Americanism was on the rise. If we now assume that the tendency towards equilibrium in ideational and ...
An illustration of the synthetic approach: terrorism in the Middle East Finally, it is important to extend the theory of ‘tenden ...
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