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Systemic transitions : past, present, and future
Title
Systemic transitions : past, present, and future / edited by William R. Thompson.
ISBN
9780230618381
0230618383
9780230608467
0230608469
0230608469
9781349375431
1349375438
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (viii, 294 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
We are all familiar with the popular and academic analyses of the ongoing and future ascent of China. Two of the associated questions are whether and when China might succeed the United States as the lead state in the world system. These are interesting questions, albeit ones that are not likely to be answered in the immediate future. An alternative focus examines instead periods of systemic transition eras in which it is conceivable that a new leader might emerge at the expense of an older system leader. Framing the question this way presumes that a) future systemic transitions remain a possibility and b) transitions do not occur abruptly but may require several decades to set up structural situations in which a transition might take place. Neither of these assumptions are carved in stone and are open to question. It may be that future systemic transitions are unlikely. Or, it may be that they will not occur as they have in the past. All of these possibilities are assessed from a variety of different perspectives.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave political & international studies collection 2009.
Other formats
Print version: Systemic transitions. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Series
The evolutionary processes in world politics series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
How might we know that a systemic transition is underway? Clues for the twenty-first century / William R. Thompson
Relative decline : why does it induce war or sustain peace? / Steve Chan and Brock F. Tessman
Transitions in hegemony : a theory based on state type and technology / Peter J. Hugill
Structural preludes to systemic transition since 1494 / William R. Thompson
Falling down : an empirical test of dynamic differentials theory, 1500-1999 / Michael Lee
Searching for changing organizational architecture during global transition : where is the post-Cold War order? / Thomas J. Volgy, Keith A. Grant, and Elizabeth Fausett
Whether and how global leadership transitions will result in war : some long-term predictions from the steps-to-war explanation / John A. Vasquez
Implications of Asia's rise to global status / Jacek Kugler and Ronald L. Tammen
Kantian dynamics and systemic transitions : can international organizations influence U.S.-China conflict? / David P. Rapkin and William R. Thompson
Exploration of connections between energy use and leadership transitions / David J. LePoire
The evolutionary trajectory of the world system toward an age of transition / Tessaleno C. Devezas
Cities in transitions and transformations : exploring a Jacobsean approach to macro-social change / Peter J. Taylor
Scale transitions and the evolution of global governance since the Bronze age / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez and Hiroko Inoue.
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