Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End - Brossura

Doran, Charles F.

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ISBN 10: 0521054788 ISBN 13: 9780521054782

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"...a wide-ranging and incisive book...among the most important theoretical and empirical additions to the causes-of-war literature of the past decade." American Political Review

Descrizione del libro:

Uncertainty is the watchword of contemporary world politics as monumental changes occur throughout the international system. 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 political system and of the problems involved in this transformation.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521054788
• ISBN 13: 9780521054782
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316