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The Rise and Fall of World Orders

Paperback • 1999 • English • 1. edition

The Rise and Fall of World Orders

By Torbjørn L. Knutsen

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Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Spanish, Dutch and the First and Second British world orders. It identifies their common features in order to find the most salient causes for their rise as world powers, and the most probable reasons for th...Show more

Political structure and processes
Political structures: democracy
International relations

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ISBN

9780719040580

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Rise and Fall of World Orders

Format

Paperback

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