TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacDonald,Paul K.
AU  - Parent,Joseph M.
TI  - Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment 
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
SN  - 9781501717109
U1  - 327.1/1409034 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Great powers
KW  - Hegemony
KW  - International relations
KW  - Regression (Civilization)
KW  - International Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - Security Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - realist foreign policy, cutting the defense budget, decline and retrenchment
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures --; Chapter 2. Parry to Thrust --; Chapter 3. The Fates of Nations --; Studies in Revival --; Chapter 4. A Hegemon Temporizes --; Chapter 5. A Hegemon Wakes Up --; Chapter 6. A Descending Whirligig --; Chapter 7. “Les Jeux Sont Faits” --; Chapter 8. Tsar Power --; Chapter 9. The Utopian Background --; Conclusion: Retrenchment as Reloading --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to moderate their behavior when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. Challenging the conventional wisdom that such transitions push declining great powers to extreme measures, this book argues that intimidation, provocation, and preventive war are not the only alternatives to the loss of relative power and prestige. Using numerous case studies, MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, the policy options they have, how rising states respond to those in decline, and what conditions reward particular strategic choices
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501717109?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501717109
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501717109/original
ER  -