Power Concentration in World Politics
The Political Economy of Systemic Leadership, Growth, and Conflict
1st Edition
Published on 10. June 2020
XIII, 238 pages
978-3-030-47422-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIII, 238 p. 22 illus., 6 illus. in color.
File size
4,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-47422-5 (9783030474225)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-47422-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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William R. Thompson
Power Concentration in World Politics
The Political Economy of Systemic Leadership, Growth, and Conflict
Book
06/2020
Springer
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Person
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,
and
co-edited
Shocks and Rivalry in the Middle East and North Africa
.
Content
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.
