TY - BOOK AU - Gunitsky,Seva TI - Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century T2 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics SN - 9780691172330 AV - JF60 .A37 2018 U1 - 321.8091724 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Democracy KW - Democratization KW - Great powers KW - World politics KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General KW - bisacsh KW - China KW - Cold War KW - Europe KW - Great War KW - Nazi Germany KW - Soviet Union KW - United States KW - capitalism KW - communism KW - democracy KW - democratic power KW - democratic reversal KW - democratic wave KW - democratic waves KW - democratization KW - domestic reform KW - domestic regimes KW - fascism KW - fascist wave KW - fascists KW - global hierarchy KW - great powers KW - hegemonic pressure KW - hegemonic shocks KW - institutional waves KW - interwar period KW - liberal capitalism KW - modern regimes KW - national reforms KW - political change KW - political legitimacy KW - postwar wave KW - regime change KW - state capitalism KW - superpowers KW - twentieth century N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885329?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400885329 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400885329.jpg ER -