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- catalog abstract "In The Great Powers and Global Struggle Karen A. Rasler and William R. Thompson focus on two themes. They explore the rise and fall as well as the relative decline of major world powers over the past five hundred years, and they examine how these processes have set the stage for the outbreak of global war. Their interdisciplinary approach encompasses political science, economics, sociology, geography, and history. The most significant wars occur when regional leaders - historically in Western Europe - challenge global leaders. By studying the wars of Napoleon, Louis XIV, Philip II and the Italian/Indian Ocean wars of the sixteenth century through World Wars I and II to the present, the authors challenge the long-held idea that prosperity leads to over-consumption and underinvestment and thus decline - a theory, traceable to ancient times, that remains the principal explanation for global decline today. Arguments about global structural change and its implications abound, but rarely is the abstract translated into concrete historical terms with emphases on specific actors and empirical documentation. Rasler and Thompson reinterpret the past five hundred years of major-power warfare and provide extensive tests of the eighteen generalizations critical to their argument. They conclude that those who argue that global war and repositioning are no longer a concern among the major powers lack critical understanding of the behavior that contributes to such conflict.".
- catalog contributor b6560517.
- catalog contributor b6560518.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "An overview of the argument: ascent, decline, transition, and war -- Tracing the rise and fall of regional and global powers -- Global and regional transitions -- Concentration and transitional warfare -- Innovation, decline, and war -- Perspectives on overconsumption and territorial traps -- The model recapitulated -- The future of transitional warfare.".
- catalog description "Arguments about global structural change and its implications abound, but rarely is the abstract translated into concrete historical terms with emphases on specific actors and empirical documentation. Rasler and Thompson reinterpret the past five hundred years of major-power warfare and provide extensive tests of the eighteen generalizations critical to their argument.".
- catalog description "In The Great Powers and Global Struggle Karen A. Rasler and William R. Thompson focus on two themes. They explore the rise and fall as well as the relative decline of major world powers over the past five hundred years, and they examine how these processes have set the stage for the outbreak of global war. Their interdisciplinary approach encompasses political science, economics, sociology, geography, and history.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-268) and index.".
- catalog description "The most significant wars occur when regional leaders - historically in Western Europe - challenge global leaders. By studying the wars of Napoleon, Louis XIV, Philip II and the Italian/Indian Ocean wars of the sixteenth century through World Wars I and II to the present, the authors challenge the long-held idea that prosperity leads to over-consumption and underinvestment and thus decline - a theory, traceable to ancient times, that remains the principal explanation for global decline today.".
- catalog description "They conclude that those who argue that global war and repositioning are no longer a concern among the major powers lack critical understanding of the behavior that contributes to such conflict.".
- catalog extent "xx, 275 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Great powers and global struggle 1490-1990.".
- catalog identifier "0813118891 (acid-free) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Great powers and global struggle 1490-1990.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Great powers and global struggle 1490-1990.".
- catalog subject "320.1/2 20".
- catalog subject "D31 .R37 1994".
- catalog subject "Geopolitics.".
- catalog subject "World politics 1945-".
- catalog subject "World politics 1945-1989.".
- catalog subject "World politics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An overview of the argument: ascent, decline, transition, and war -- Tracing the rise and fall of regional and global powers -- Global and regional transitions -- Concentration and transitional warfare -- Innovation, decline, and war -- Perspectives on overconsumption and territorial traps -- The model recapitulated -- The future of transitional warfare.".
- catalog title "The great powers and global struggle 1490-1990 / Karen A. Rasler & William R. Thompson.".
- catalog type "text".