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Author : Yun-Hui Hong
Publisher : Big and SMALL
ISBN 13 : 1925235408
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Great Powers of Nature written by Yun-Hui Hong and published by Big and SMALL. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores natural disasters such as floods, droughts, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.
Author : United States. Army Service Forces. Army Specialized Training Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Geographical Foundations of National Power: The great powers. Chap. 1-10.-sec. II. Chap. 11-13.-sec. III. Chap. 14 written by United States. Army Service Forces. Army Specialized Training Division and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. V. Paul
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228481
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Restraining Great Powers written by T. V. Paul and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory--the bedrock of realism in international relations--other states should have joined together militarily to counterbalance the United States' rising power. Yet they did not. Nor have they united to oppose Chinese aggression in the South China Sea or Russian offensives along its western border. This does not mean balance-of-power politics is dead, argues renowned international relations scholar T. V. Paul; instead it has taken a different form. Rather than employ familiar strategies such as active military alliances and arms buildups, leading powers have engaged in "soft balancing," which seeks to restrain threatening powers through the use of international institutions, informal alignments, and economic sanctions. Paul places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective, from the post-Napoleonic era to today's globalized world. This book offers an illuminating examination of how subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races.
Author : Bear F. Braumoeller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560441
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Great Powers and the International System written by Bear F. Braumoeller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do great leaders make history? Or are they compelled to act by historical circumstance? This debate has remained unresolved since Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx framed it in the mid-nineteenth century, yet implicit answers inform our policies and our views of history. In this book, Professor Bear F. Braumoeller argues persuasively that both perspectives are correct: leaders shape the main material and ideological forces of history that subsequently constrain and compel them. His studies of the Congress of Vienna, the interwar period, and the end of the Cold War illustrate this dynamic, and the data he marshals provide systematic evidence that leaders both shape and are constrained by the structure of the international system.
Author : Yan Xuetong
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210225
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers written by Yan Xuetong and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international order Why has China grown increasingly important in the world arena while lagging behind the United States and its allies across certain sectors? Using the lens of classical Chinese political theory, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers explains China’s expanding influence by presenting a moral-realist theory that attributes the rise and fall of great powers to political leadership. Yan Xuetong shows that the stronger a rising state’s political leadership, the more likely it is to displace a prevailing state in the international system. Yan shows how rising states like China transform the international order by reshaping power distribution and norms, and he considers America’s relative decline in international stature even as its economy, education system, military, political institutions, and technology hold steady. Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers offers a provocative, alternative perspective on the changing dominance of states.
Author : Gerry Simpson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521534901
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Great Powers and Outlaw States written by Gerry Simpson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'.
Author : Adam Bower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192507176
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Norms Without the Great Powers written by Adam Bower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can multilateral treaties succeed in transforming conduct when they are rejected by the most powerful states in the international system? In the past two decades, coalitions of middle-power states and transnational civil society groups have negotiated binding legal agreements in the face of concerted opposition from China, Russia, andmost especiallythe United States. These instances of a so-called 'new diplomacy' reflect a deliberate attempt to use the language of international law to bypass great power objections in establishing new global standards. Yet critics have frequently derided such treaties as utopian and counter productive because they fail to include those states allegedly most capable of effectively managing complex international cooperation. Thus far no study has offered a systematic, comparative study of the promise, and limits, of multilateralism without the great powers. Norms Without the Great Powers addresses this gap through the presentation of a novel theoretical account and detailed empirical evidence regarding the implementation of two archetypal cases, the antipersonnel Mine Ban Treaty and International Criminal Court. Both treaties have substantially reshaped expectations and behaviour in their respective domains, but with important variation in the extent and breadth of their impact. These findings provide the impetus for assessing the prospects for similar strategies on other topics of contemporary global concern. This book offers a timely addition to the dynamic and growing literature on the practice and consequences of international governance and should appeal to academics, civil society experts, and foreign policy practitioners working in fields such as security, human rights, and the environment.
Author : Jack Fairey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137508469
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom written by Jack Fairey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new political history of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire explains why Orthodoxy became the subject of acute political competition between the Great Powers during the mid 19th century. It also explores how such rivalries led, paradoxically, both to secularizing reforms and to Europe's last great war of religion - the Crimean War.
Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076245
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition) written by John J. Mearsheimer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.
Author : Patrick Salmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521891028
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940 written by Patrick Salmon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of the changing position of all four Nordic states in twentieth-century international relations.
Author : Derek Mckay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872843
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815 written by Derek Mckay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book.
Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745633757
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The United States and the Great Powers written by Barry Buzan and published by Polity. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that we live in a world where great powers - such as China and the EU - are not helpless in the face of the United States, this text contends that the other major nations of the world must work alongside the US in order to counter-balance America's current dominance of the international political scene.
Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141983833
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery written by Paul Kennedy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History
Author : Michael Jonas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135004637X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War written by Michael Jonas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war. It surveys the complex relationship between the belligerent great powers and Northern Europe's neutral small states in times of crisis and war. The book's overreaching rationale draws upon three underlying conceptual fields: neutrality and international law, hegemony and great power politics as well as diplomacy and policy-making of small states in the international arena. From a variety of angles, it examines the question of how neutrality was understood and perceived, negotiated and dealt with both among the Scandinavian states and the belligerent major powers, especially Britain, Germany and Russia. For a long time, the experience of neutral countries during the First World War was seen as marginal, and was overshadowed by the experiences of occupation and collaboration brought about by the Second World War. In this book, Jonas demonstrates how this perception has changed, with neutrality becoming an integral part of the multiple narratives of the First World War. It is an important contribution to the international history of the First World War, cultural-historically influenced approaches to diplomatic history and the growing area of neutrality studies.
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
ISBN 13 : 1531280358
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Age of the Great Powers written by H. G. Wells and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open struggle of the private property owner against the aggressions of the "Prince" begins in England far back in the twelfth century. The phase in this struggle that we have to study now is the phase that opened with the attempts of Henry VII and VIII and their successors, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, to make the government of England a "personal monarchy" of the continental type. It became more acute when, by dynastic accidents, James, King of Scotland, became James I, King of both Scotland and England (1603), and began to talk in the manner we have already quoted of his "divine right" to do as he pleased. But never had the path of English monarchy been a smooth one. In all the monarchies of the Northmen and Germanic invaders of the empire there had been a tradition of a popular assembly of influential and representative men to preserve their general liberties, and in none was it more living than in England. France had her tradition of the assembly of the Three Estates, Spain her Cortes, but the English assembly was peculiar in two respects: that it had behind it a documentary declaration of certain elementary and universal rights, and that it contained elected "Knights of the Shire," as well as elected burghers from the towns. The French and Spanish assemblies had the latter, but not the former element...
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134157053
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony written by Jeremy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and authoritative book is a general overview of Great Power politics and strategy from 1500 to the present.
Author : Samuel S. Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139455435
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Two Koreas and the Great Powers written by Samuel S. Kim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Korea's place in terms of multiple levels and domains of interaction pertaining to foreign-policy behaviors and relations with the four regional/global powers (China, Russia, Japan, and the United States). The synergy of global transformations has now brought to an end Korea's proverbial identity and role as the helpless shrimp among whales, and both North Korea and South Korea have taken on new roles in the process of redefining and projecting their national identities. Synthetic national identity theory offers a useful perspective on change and continuity in Korea's turbulent relationships with the great powers over the years. Following a review of Korean diplomatic history and competing theoretical approaches, along with a synthetic national-identity theory as an alternative approach, one chapter each is devoted to how Korea relates to the four powers in turn, and the book concludes with a consideration of inter-Korean relations and potential reunification.
