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CONTENTS

Оглавление

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

PRAISE

DEDICATION

MAPS

TABLES AND CHARTS

INTRODUCTION

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD

1. The Rise of the Western World

Ming China

The Muslim World

Two Outsiders – Japan and Russia

The ‘European Miracle’

2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519–1659

The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc

International Comparisons

War, Money, and the Nation-State

3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660–1815

The ‘Financial Revolution’

Geopolitics

The Winning of Wars, 1660–1763

The Winning of Wars, 1763–1815

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815–85

The Eclipse of the Non-European World

Britain as Hegemon?

The ‘Middle Powers’

The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power

The United States and the Civil War

The Wars of German Unification

Conclusions

5. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’: Part One, 1885–1918

The Shifting Balance of World Forces

The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914

Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890–1914

Total War and the Power Balances, 1914–18

6. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’: Part Two, 1919–42

The Postwar International Order

The Challengers

The Offstage Superpowers

The Unfolding Crisis, 1931–42

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY AND TOMORROW

7. Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943–80

‘The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force’

The New Strategic Landscape

The Cold War and the Third World

The Fissuring of the Bipolar World

The Changing Economic Balances, 1950–80

8. To the Twenty-first Century

History and Speculation

China’s Balancing Act

The Japanese Dilemma

The EEC – Potential and Problems

The Soviet Union and Its ‘Contradictions’

The United States: the Problem of Number One in Relative Decline

EPILOGUE

NOTES

FOOTNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

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