Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

Rising Titans, Falling Giants

How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts

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Produktbeschreibung

As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their...

Produktdetails

• Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781501770227
• ISBN-10: 1501770225
• Artikelnr.: 67793167

Autorenporträt

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rising States and the Fate of Declining Great Powers
1. Predation Theory
2. A Formerly Great Britain: Predicting U.S. and Soviet Strategy
3. The U.S. and Soviet Response to Britain's Decline
4. Watching the Soviet Union Decline: Assessing Change and Predicting U.S.
Strategy
5. U.S. Strategy and the Decline of the Soviet Union
Conclusion: Rising Powers, the Fate of Declining States, and the Future of
Great Power Politics
Appendix 1: Declining Great Powers, 1860-1913
Appendix 2: Interviews Conducted with Former U.S. Government Officials
Notes
Index