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In this bold new perspective on the United States-China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. How do great powers respond to decline? they ask. What options do great powers have to slow or reverse their descent?In Twilight of the Titans, MacDonald and Parent challenge claims that policymakers for great powers, unwilling to manage decline through moderation, will be pushed to extreme measures. Tough talk, intimidation, provocation, and preventive war, they write, are not the only alternatives to defeat. Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction. What retrenchment does encourage is resurrection. Only states that retrench have recovered their former position.MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, what policy options they have to choose from, how rising states respond to decline, and what conditions reward which strategies. Using case studies that include Great Britain in 1872 and 1908, Russia in 1888 and 1903, and France in 1893 and 1924, Twilight of the Titans offers clear evidence that declining powers have a wide array of options at their disposal and offers guidance on how to use the right tools at the right time. The result is a comprehensive rethinking of power transition and hegemonic war theories and a different approach to the policy problems that declining states face. What matters most, the authors write, is the strategic choices made by the great powers.

International relations. --- Regression (Civilization) --- Hegemony. --- Great powers. --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- World politics --- Hegemonism --- Political science --- Sociology --- Unipolarity (International relations) --- Decline of civilization --- Civilization --- Progress --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- Philosophy --- realist foreign policy, cutting the defense budget, decline and retrenchment.

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Political stability. --- Balance of power. --- Central Asia. --- Power, Balance of --- Power politics --- International relations --- Political realism --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Legitimacy of governments --- Central Asia, economic and political issues --- Great powers. --- Strategic rivalries (World politics) --- International rivalries (World politics) --- World politics --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers

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Le XXIe siècle sera-t-il chinois ? Bien des signes le laissent penser. En quelques décennies, le pays a su rattraper son retard en dépassant toutes les prédictions. Son influence économique, stratégique, diplomatique et idéologique est partout croissante - dans le tiers-monde, en particulier. L'Occident, et au premier titre les États-Unis, observe cette résurgence avec une défiance manifeste. A-t-on raison de s'inquiéter ? Et comment, au juste, cette transition est-elle pilotée ? Le meilleur moyen de le savoir, c'est d'inscrire l'analyse dans la longue durée et de prêter l'oreille aux discours des spécialistes et des acteurs chinois. Depuis Deng Xiaoping, Beijing a fait du pragmatisme un principe de gouvernement fondamental. C'est l'ère de l'« ascension pacifique », qui opère un savant dosage entre l'assurance d'une puissance qui entend faire sa marque et le doigté d'un partenaire d'affaires raisonnable et rassurant.

International economic relations. --- Corporate power --- Great powers. --- Chine --- China --- Conditions économiques --- Relations extérieures. --- Economic conditions --- Foreign relations. --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- World politics --- Power (Social sciences) --- Corporations --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- Pouvoir économique --- Nouvel ordre économique international. --- Grandes puissances. --- sciences sociales --- politique

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Balance des pouvoirs --- Balance of power --- Coexistence --- Coëxistence pacifique --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Interdependence of nations --- International relations --- Internationale betrekkingen --- Machtsevenwicht --- Ordre mondial --- Peaceful coexistence --- Power [Balance of ] --- Power politics --- Puissances [Équilibre des ] --- Relations internationales --- Vreedzame coëxistentie --- Wereldorde --- World order --- Équilibre des pouvoirs --- Équilibre des puissances --- Équilibre international --- World politics --- Great powers --- Geopolitics --- Politique mondiale --- Grandes puissances --- Géopolitique --- Equilibre des puissances --- Great powers. --- relations economiques internationales --- relations est ouest --- relations nord sud --- international --- internationale economische betrekkingen --- oost westverhoudingen --- noord zuidverhoudingen --- internationaal --- Géopolitique --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- World politics - 1989 --- -Great powers. --- Géopolitique. --- Équilibre des puissances. --- Relations internationales. --- Géopolitique. --- Équilibre des puissances.

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'Dangerous Gifts' is a text about the strategic, economic, legal, and religious undertones of Great Power interventions and violence in the Levant.

Great powers. --- Security, International --- Civil war --- Eastern question. --- History --- Middle East --- Foreign relations. --- East and West --- World politics --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War --- Collective security --- International security --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Powers, Great --- Super powers --- Superpowers --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Great powers --- Civil war. --- History. --- Great Power Interventions, the Levant, the Middle East, the Eastern Question, the Ottoman Empire, imperialism, security, civil wars, international law, free trade --- 1800-1899