Penn State Department of Political Science

Book Description

By succinctly integrating power transition theory and national policy, this outstanding team of scholars explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. Blending quantitative and traditional analyses, theory and practice, history and informed predictions, Power Transitions draws a map of the new world that will stimulate, provoke, and offer solutions.

Contents

Part I. Foundations
1. Power Transition Theory for the Twenty-first Century
2. Power Transition Theory Tested in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Part II. Applications
3. Regional Applications: Multiple Hierarchies
4. Security Applications: Deterrence and Proliferation
5. Economic Applications: Growth, Trade, and Democracy

Part III. Policy Changes
6. The Realignment Challenge: The Expansion of NATO
7. The Asian Challenge
8. The World to Come

Notes
Index