TY - BOOK ID - 840651 TI - War and change in world politics PY - 1981 SN - 0521240182 0521273765 1139885928 1107384613 1461949041 1306148219 1107394759 0511938071 1107383528 1107389968 0511664265 110739838X 9780521273763 9780511938078 9781461949046 9780511664267 9780521240185 9781306148214 9781107384613 9781139885928 9781107383524 9781107394759 9781107389960 9781107398382 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Polemology KW - International relations KW - Research. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Relations internationales KW - Recherche KW - #SBIB:327.1H10 KW - Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën KW - VIE INTERNATIONALE KW - THEORIES ET MODELES KW - ACTEURS KW - ELUS KW - FACTEURS KW - ENJEUX KW - PAIX KW - GUERRE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:840651 AB - War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential growth of power in the international system and the result of this unevenness. A shift in the balance of power - economic or military - weakens the foundations of the existing system, because those gaining power see the increasing benefits and the decreasing cost of changing the system. The result, maintains Gilpin, is that actors seek to alter the system through territorial, political, or economic expansion until the marginal costs of continuing change are greater than the marginal benefits. When states develop the power to change the system according to their interests they will strive to do so- either by increasing economic efficiency and maximizing mutual gain, or by redistributing wealth and power in their own favour. ER -