The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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... example of a " falling " Great Power helping to trigger off a major war , that still leaves the theorist to deal with the equally critical roles played then by those " rising " Great Powers Germany and Russia . Similarly , any gen- eral ...
... example of a " falling " Great Power helping to trigger off a major war , that still leaves the theorist to deal with the equally critical roles played then by those " rising " Great Powers Germany and Russia . Similarly , any gen- eral ...
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... example , Gervasi , Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy , passim , but espec . pp . 116-18 . 174. For examples : J. Schell , The Fate of the Earth ( New York , 1982 ) ; H. Caldicott , Nuclear Madness ( Brookline , Mass . , 1979 ) ; E. P. ...
... example , Gervasi , Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy , passim , but espec . pp . 116-18 . 174. For examples : J. Schell , The Fate of the Earth ( New York , 1982 ) ; H. Caldicott , Nuclear Madness ( Brookline , Mass . , 1979 ) ; E. P. ...
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... example , R. W. Komer , Maritime Strategy or Coalition Defense ? ( Cam- bridge , Mass . , 1984 ) , passim , and the debate in 1986 in journals such as Interna- tional Security upon the Reagan administration's " maritime strategy . " 229 ...
... example , R. W. Komer , Maritime Strategy or Coalition Defense ? ( Cam- bridge , Mass . , 1984 ) , passim , and the debate in 1986 in journals such as Interna- tional Security upon the Reagan administration's " maritime strategy . " 229 ...
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