Rise and Fall of World Orders

by Torbjørn L. Knutsen

Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Spanish, Dutch and the First and Second British world orders. It identifies their common features in order to find the most salient causes for their rise as world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719040582
• ISBN13: 9780719040580
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"