Author: George Modelski
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349091539
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

View

Book Description

Author: George Modelski
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349091545
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391

View

Book Description

Author: George Modelski
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570030543
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290

View

Book Description
The idea that political and economic power moves in coordinated cycles has long intrigued political scientists and political economists, for if a pattern exists in the rise and fall of international political power, a model explaining this pattern gains predictive qualities. In Leading Sectors and World Powers, George Modelski and William R. Thompson venture beyond previous attempts to explain why major powers rise, fall, and fight about their changing status to establish an explicit connection between war, economic innovation, and world leadership. They argue that surges in economic innovation, which in turn are tied to global war, determine leadership in the global system. Modelski and Thompson base their theory on the coordination of long cycles (phases of world order and decay punctuated by intensive bouts of global war) and K-waves (cycles delineating the wax and wane of leading industrial sectors). They contend that K-waves appear in paired sets correlated to long-cycle shifts in political power. Modelski and Thompson conclude by discussing the nature and timing of the next K-wave/long cycle peak, commenting on the relevance of it for U.S. industrial policy and speculating on the possibility of evolving away from this pattern in the near future.

Author: William R. Thompson
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030474224
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245

View

Book Description
This book discusses the role of space, time and cyclical behavior in world politics. More specifically, the political-economic role of lead economies – the world’s most innovative economies for finite periods of time – in world politics. These represent unusual concentrations of new technologies, energy sources, and military capabilities of global reach that play disproportional roles in the conduct of international affairs and the provision of limited governance at the most macro level. They also possess close links to economic growth and intense conflict. The book describes the economic, military and political processes behind the systemic leadership of a state at the international level. It also highlights the economic preconditions of systemic leadership, such as economic monopoly of new technologies and energy, which underlie the system leader’s material advantage over others. Analyzing lead economies and the evolution of power over a number of centuries, the author demonstrates how disruptions wrought by the emergence of new technologies and energy sources are partly responsible for global conflicts. This book appeals to international relations scholars as well as anyone interested in the political economy of systemic leadership, growth, and conflict in world politics.

Author: George Modelski
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349091510
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

View

Book Description

Author: G. John Ikenberry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107072743
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

View

Book Description
This volume brings together leading scholars to analyse the central issues of power, order, and change in world politics.

Author: Volker Bornschier
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761958666
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

View

Book Description
This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form? The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.

Author: Charles F. Doran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521401852
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

View

Book Description
Uncertainty is the watchword of contemporary world politics. Monumental changes are occurring throughout the international system and statespeople are wrestling with peaceful solutions to the transformation in relative power of the USA, Soviet Union and China, Japan and in Europe. In this book, Charles Doran proposes a managed solution to peaceful change. He presents a bold, original and wide-ranging analysis of the present balance of power, of future prospects for the international system and of the problems involved in this transformation. Professor Doran demonstrates why such change has often been accompanied by world war, providing new insights into the causes of the First World War. But, he argues, systems change can be both peaceful and secure. Developing a theory of the power cycle, the author reveals the structural bounds on statecraft and shows how the tides of history can suddenly and unexpectedly shift against the state.

Author: George Modelski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295964300
Category : Cycles.
Languages : en
Pages : 0

View

Book Description
Argues that there are major wars every one hundred years, explains the reasons for this cycle, and suggests how world leadership can avoid the next war

Author: Agnes Gagyi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030769437
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

View

Book Description
Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as part of the long downturn of the post-WWII global capitalist cycle. Based on an empirical comparison of two countries with significantly different political regimes throughout the period, Hungary and Romania, this study shows how different constellations of successive late socialist and post-socialist regimes have managed internal and external class relations throughout the same global crisis process, from very similar positions of semi-peripheral, post-socialist systemic integration. Within this context, the book follows the role of social movements since the 1970s, paying attention both to the level of differences between local integration regimes and to the level of structural similarities of global integration. The analysis maintains a special focus on movements’ class composition and inter-class relationships and the specific position of middle-class politics in movements.