Power Concentration in World Politics

The Political Economy of Systemic Leadership, Growth, and Conflict
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-47421-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Reihe: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures

This book discusses the role of space, time and cyclical behavior in world politics. More specifically, the political-economic role of lead economies – the world’s most innovative economies for finite periods of time – in world politics. These represent unusual concentrations of new technologies, energy sources, and military capabilities of global reach that play disproportional roles in the conduct of international affairs and the provision of limited governance at the most macro level. They also possess close links to economic growth and intense conflict. 

The book describes the economic, military and political processes behind the systemic leadership of a state at the international level. It also highlights the economic preconditions of systemic leadership, such as economic monopoly of new technologies and energy, which underlie the system leader’s material advantage over others. Analyzing lead economies and the evolution of power over a number of centuries,the author demonstrates how disruptions wrought by the emergence of new technologies and energy sources are partly responsible for global conflicts. This book appeals to international relations scholars as well as anyone interested in the political economy of systemic leadership, growth, and conflict in world politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, William R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Space, Time and Systemic Leadership.- Demography, Long Cycles, and Climate/Disease.- Historical Scripts, Leadership Sequencing, and Counterfactuals.- Clustering of Technological Change in Pioneer Economics.- Energy Leads and Transitions.- Malign Versus Benign Motivations.- Economic Rivalry and Global War.- Precipitants, Non-linearities, and Structural Change.- Trade, Growth, and Conflict.- Summary and Recapitulation.

Über Autor(innen)

William R. Thompson, Distinguished Professor and Rogers Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Indiana University, is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, a former Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Quarterly, and a former President of the International Studies Association. He recently co-authored Racing to the Top: How Energy Fuels Systemic Leadership in World Politics, edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations, andco-edited Shocks and Rivalry in the Middle East and North Africa.