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Rising Titans, Falling Giants : How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts / Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) : 3 charts, 3 graphsContent type:
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  • 9781501725067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.101 23
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  • JZ1310
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: 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 declining competitors in response to declining states’ policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two.Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

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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 declining competitors in response to declining states’ policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two.Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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