Principles of World Politics

Modelski, George

Free Pr

Argues that there are major wars every one hundred years, explains the reasons for this cycle, and suggests how world leadership can avoid the next war

Long Cycles in World Politics

Univ of Washington Pr

Traces the distribution of naval power over the past five hundred years, discusses its connection with global politics, and looks at the future of sea power

Seapower in Global Politics, 1494-1993

Thompson, William R.

Seapower in global politics, 1494-1993

History

Military

Macmillan Press

"World Cities: -3000 to 2000" presents a comprehensive listing of the most important cities in each of the three eras of world history: ancient, classical, and modern. It also tests the proposition that urbanization is a learning process that, viewed against the backdrop of five millennia, is evidence of world system evolution. The extensive data base it assembles graphically illustrates the extraordidnary leap in urban growth experienced in the 20th century and suggests the imminence of a decisive turning point in world social organization.

World Cities: -3000 to 2000

World

FAROS2000

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Traces the distribution of naval power over the past five hundred years, discusses its connection with global politics, and looks at the future of sea power

Seapower in Global Politics, 1494–1993

The idea that political and economic power moves in coordinated cycles has long intrigued political scientists and political economists, for if a pattern exists in the rise and fall of international political power, a model explaining this pattern gains predictive qualities. In Leading Sectors and World Powers, George Modelski and William R. Thompson venture beyond previous attempts to explain why major powers rise, fall, and fight about their changing status to establish an explicit connection between war, economic innovation, and world leadership. They argue that surges in economic innovation, which in turn are tied to global war, determine leadership in the global system. Modelski and Thompson base their theory on the coordination of long cycles (phases of world order and decay punctuated by intensive bouts of global war) and K-waves (cycles delineating the wax and wane of leading industrial sectors). They contend that K-waves appear in paired sets correlated to long-cycle shifts in political power. Modelski and Thompson conclude by discussing the nature and timing of the next K-wave/long cycle peak, commenting on the relevance of it for U.S. industrial policy and speculating on the possibility of evolving away from this pattern in the near future.

Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics (Studies in International Relations)

Business & Money

Economics

University of South Carolina Press

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