The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 27 հոկ, 2010 թ. - 704 էջ About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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The Habsburg Bid for Mastery 15191659 | |
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc | |
International Comparisons | |
War Money and the NationState | |
Finance Geography and the Winning | |
The Challengers | |
The Offstage Superpowers | |
The Unfolding Crisis 19311942 | |
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY | |
The New Strategic Landscape | |
The Cold War and the Third World | |
The Fissuring of the Bipolar World | |
The Changing Economic Balances 1950 to 1980 | |
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN | |
Britain as Hegemon? | |
The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power | |
The Wars of German Unification | |
Conclusions | |
The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis | |
The Position of the Powers 18851914 | |
Alliances and the Drift to War 18901914 | |
Part Two 19191942 | |
To the Twentyfirst Century | |
Chinas Balancing | |
The Japanese Dilemma | |
The EECPotential and Problems | |
The Soviet Union and Its Contradictions | |
The Problem of Number One in Relative | |
Epilogue | |
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