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 144
... strength . While the new technology in- creased the lead in firepower and mobility which the Great Powers enjoyed in the overseas world , it was going to be many decades before military and naval commanders revised their ideas of how to ...
... strength . While the new technology in- creased the lead in firepower and mobility which the Great Powers enjoyed in the overseas world , it was going to be many decades before military and naval commanders revised their ideas of how to ...
Page 238
... strength . Once this superficial level of number - counting is discarded , how- ever , even the military issue becomes altogether more problematical . Once again , the decisive factor was Russia's socioeconomic and techni- cal ...
... strength . Once this superficial level of number - counting is discarded , how- ever , even the military issue becomes altogether more problematical . Once again , the decisive factor was Russia's socioeconomic and techni- cal ...
Page 538
... strength to many more nations ; but that will be a gradual process , and no other state is likely to join the present " pentarchy " of the United States , the USSR , China , Japan , and the EEC in the near future . Secondly , the global ...
... strength to many more nations ; but that will be a gradual process , and no other state is likely to join the present " pentarchy " of the United States , the USSR , China , Japan , and the EEC in the near future . Secondly , the global ...
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