Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century

by Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, Abdollahia, et al.

Book Overview

By succinctly integrating power transition theory and national policy, this outstanding team of scholars explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. Blending quantitative and traditional analyses, theory and practice, history and informed predictions, Power Transitions draws a map of the new world that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889119431
• ISBN13: 9781889119434
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: CQ Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must read for someone with an IR interest

I read this book a while ago while I was in Prof Tammen's Power Transitions course at Portland State University. I personally think that the theory is for the most part sound but the most important thing that can be derived from the book is a WORKING model or framework that can enable political leaders a rational method to make sound policy choices.

Power Transitions

What is the current threat to world peace? What will the post Cold War-system look like in the 21st century? Who will follow the United States as the next world power? Power Transitions answers these provocative questions revolutionizing academic analysis and merging it with hands on policy. This book is a must-not only for graduate and undergraduate students in political science-it is an academic book that is approachable for everyone (especially international business executives) who wants to understand the current state of the world. Power Transitions intriguingly predicts China's rise to world dominance in carefully documented terms. India is predicted to be the power to dominate China. These statements are not alarmist statements, but scientifically derived predictions of prestigious academics, providing practical political solutions for these potentially dire events. The Department Chair of the National War College, Ronald Tammen, joined forces with Jacek Kugler, a distinguished professor from Claremont Graduate University, Alan Stam from Yale, and a hand-full of brilliant young analysts from various institutions to compile a new theory and a new perspective for a new age.