The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990 [1 ed.] 9780813149929, 9780813118895

In The Great Powers and Global Struggle, Karen A. Rasler and William R. Thompson focus on two themes: the rise and fall

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The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990 [1 ed.]
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An in-depth, scholarly study of the lengthy negotiations that brought peace to the thirteen rebellious American Colonies

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Studies Spain during and after the Spanish War from the uprising in Morocco to the virtual abandonment of "Operatio

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How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without war

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The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excava

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A study by a leading Chinese scholar of international relations, developing a systematic theory of leadership explaining

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A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and wha

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The eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula will send political and economic reverberations throughout Northeast

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