The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990.
Rasler, Karen A.
The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (296 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. An Overview of the Argument: Ascent, Decline, Transition, and War -- 2. Tracing the Rise and Fall of Regional and Global Powers -- 3. Global and Regional Transitions -- 4. Concentration and Transitional Warfare -- 5. Innovation, Decline, and War -- 6. Perspectives on Overconsumption and Decline -- 7. The Case against Tradeoffs as a Primary Cause of Decline -- 8. Observations on Overextension and Territorial Traps -- 9. The Model Recapitulated -- 10. The Future of Transitional Warfare -- Appendixes -- A. The Army Data and Sources -- B. Identifying Systemic Wars -- C. Cross-Correlations, Time Series Regressions, and Coefficients Derived from Vector Autoregression -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9780813149929
World politics.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
Geopolitics.
Electronic books.
D31 -- .R37 2009eb
320.1/2
The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (296 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. An Overview of the Argument: Ascent, Decline, Transition, and War -- 2. Tracing the Rise and Fall of Regional and Global Powers -- 3. Global and Regional Transitions -- 4. Concentration and Transitional Warfare -- 5. Innovation, Decline, and War -- 6. Perspectives on Overconsumption and Decline -- 7. The Case against Tradeoffs as a Primary Cause of Decline -- 8. Observations on Overextension and Territorial Traps -- 9. The Model Recapitulated -- 10. The Future of Transitional Warfare -- Appendixes -- A. The Army Data and Sources -- B. Identifying Systemic Wars -- C. Cross-Correlations, Time Series Regressions, and Coefficients Derived from Vector Autoregression -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9780813149929
World politics.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
Geopolitics.
Electronic books.
D31 -- .R37 2009eb
320.1/2