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| Table of Contents | |
| Contributors | vii |
|
Introduction Geir Lundestad |
xi |
| Part I: The Fall of Great Powers in a Long-Term Historical Perspective | |
| Introductory
Historical Commentary William H. McNeill |
3 |
| Great Powers
and Empires: Historical Mechanisms of their Making and
Breaking Imanuel Geiss |
23 |
| Part II: The Fall of Great Powers: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy | |
| The Fall of
Great Britain: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy Zara Steiner |
47 |
| The Fall of
Austria-Hungary: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy Istvan Deak |
81 |
| The Fall of
Germany: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy Wolfgang J. Mommsen |
103 |
| The Fall of
Empires - Russia and the Soviet Union Alec Nove. |
125 |
| The Fall of
the Soviet Union: Peace, Stability and Legitimacy Alexandr O. Chubarian |
147 |
| The Collapse
of the Soviet Union: Leadership, Elites, and Legitimacy Vladislav M. Zubok |
157 |
| The End of the
Cold War and the Future of American Power Aaron L. Friedberg |
175 |
| The "Fall" of
the United States:Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy Susan Strange |
197 |
| Part III: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East | |
| Peace,
Stability, and Legitimacy in Africa: The Factor of
Colonialism and Neocolonialism J.F. Ade Ajayi. |
215 |
| Empires and
Anti-empires: Asia in World Politics Wang Gungwu |
235 |
| The
Superpowers in the Middle East: Cold War and Post-Cold-War
Policies Carol R. Saivetz |
259 |
| Part IV: Are Democratic States Always Peaceful Towards One Another? | |
| The Voice of
the People: Political Theorists on the International
Implications of Democracy Michael W. Doyle |
283 |
| Part V: Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy: Some Speculations about the Future | |
| The Cycle of
Great Powers: Has it Finally Been Broken? Robert Gilpin |
313 |
| Peace,
Stability, and Legitimacy, 1990-2025/2050 Immanuel Wallerstein |
331 |
| Peace,
Legitimacy, and the Post-Cold-War World: Where Do We Go From
Here? John Lewis Gaddis |
351 |
| Part VI: Conclusions | |
|
Conclusions Paul Kennedy |
371 |
| The Fall of
Empires: Peace. Stability, and Legitimacy Geir Lundestad |
383 |
| Index | 403 |
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