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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Page 373
... Moscow for guidance . Such considerations , much more than any centuries - old drive toward warm - water ports , probably ordered the Soviet policy in the post - 1945 world , even if it left open the detailed solution of the various ...
... Moscow for guidance . Such considerations , much more than any centuries - old drive toward warm - water ports , probably ordered the Soviet policy in the post - 1945 world , even if it left open the detailed solution of the various ...
Page 375
... Moscow's planned advance . These disagreements , together with the Soviet Union's unwillingness to join the IMF and International Bank , especially disturbed those Americans who had hoped to preserve good relations with Moscow after the ...
... Moscow's planned advance . These disagreements , together with the Soviet Union's unwillingness to join the IMF and International Bank , especially disturbed those Americans who had hoped to preserve good relations with Moscow after the ...
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... Moscow to be denounced by Peking for suppressing the Czech liberalization reforms in 1968 , and again for its actions against Afghanistan in 1979 . In the Third World , moreover , China was somewhat better placed to block Russian ...
... Moscow to be denounced by Peking for suppressing the Czech liberalization reforms in 1968 , and again for its actions against Afghanistan in 1979 . In the Third World , moreover , China was somewhat better placed to block Russian ...
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