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Aftershocks : Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century / Seva Gunitsky.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 154Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 23 line illus. 4 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691172330
  • 9781400885329
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8091724 23
LOC classification:
  • JF60 .A37 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustration -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Century of Shocks and Waves -- 2. From Crests to Collapses: The Sources of Failure in Democratic Waves -- 3. The Alchemy of War -- 4. A Low Dishonest Decade -- 5. Two Ways of Life -- 6. The Winds from the East -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond the Great Plateau -- Appendix 1: Regime Classifications, 1900-2000 -- Appendix 2: Regime Impositions -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat-not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are driven by the aftermath of cataclysmic disruptions to the international system. These hegemonic shocks, marked by the sudden rise and fall of great powers, have been essential and often-neglected drivers of domestic transformations. Though rare and fleeting, they not only repeatedly alter the global hierarchy of powerful states but also create unique and powerful opportunities for sweeping national reforms-by triggering military impositions, swiftly changing the incentives of domestic actors, or transforming the basis of political legitimacy itself. As a result, the evolution of modern regimes cannot be fully understood without examining the consequences of clashes between great powers, which repeatedly-and often unsuccessfully-sought to cajole, inspire, and intimidate other states into joining their camps.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustration -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Century of Shocks and Waves -- 2. From Crests to Collapses: The Sources of Failure in Democratic Waves -- 3. The Alchemy of War -- 4. A Low Dishonest Decade -- 5. Two Ways of Life -- 6. The Winds from the East -- 7. Conclusion: Beyond the Great Plateau -- Appendix 1: Regime Classifications, 1900-2000 -- Appendix 2: Regime Impositions -- Bibliography -- Index

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Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat-not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are driven by the aftermath of cataclysmic disruptions to the international system. These hegemonic shocks, marked by the sudden rise and fall of great powers, have been essential and often-neglected drivers of domestic transformations. Though rare and fleeting, they not only repeatedly alter the global hierarchy of powerful states but also create unique and powerful opportunities for sweeping national reforms-by triggering military impositions, swiftly changing the incentives of domestic actors, or transforming the basis of political legitimacy itself. As a result, the evolution of modern regimes cannot be fully understood without examining the consequences of clashes between great powers, which repeatedly-and often unsuccessfully-sought to cajole, inspire, and intimidate other states into joining their camps.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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