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Twilight of the Titans : Great Power Decline and Retrenchment / Joseph M. Parent, Paul K. MacDonald.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) : 3 tables, 2 charts, 2 graphsContent type:
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  • 9781501717109
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1/1409034 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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