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Power Concentration in World Politics

Part of the World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47422-5

ISBN: 978-3-030-47421-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 11, 2020

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Space, Time, and Systemic Leadership

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 1 –21

[While we strive for timeless generalizations that omit specific spatial references, world politics is difficult to interpret in the absence of space and time markers. In particular, the variable concentration of political–economic and military resources is critical to this interpretation. Yet...
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Demography, Long Cycles, and Climate/Disease

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 23 –51

[Among approaches to explaining global history, the secular cycles and leadership long cycle schools emphasize much different phenomena. The former stresses processes highlighting demographic pressures and the rise and fall of land powers. The latter focuses on trading states, maritime...
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Historical Scripts, Leadership Sequencing, and Counterfactuals

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 53 –74

[How we make sense of world politics and episodes of accelerated globalization depends on our historical scripts. Validating one person’s historical script versus someone else’s is a highly problematic exercise. Counterfactuals, however, can be utilized to at least suggest or reinforce the...
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Clusters of Technological Change in Pioneering Economies

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 75 –98

[Lead economies ascend via Kondratieff waves. The etiology of these Kondratieff waves (k-waves) is complex because their effects are so pervasive. It may also be that their sources are equally numerous. However, one of the unfortunate by-products of the K-wave’s political–economic centrally is...
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Energy Leads and Transitions

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 99 –115

[While K-wave behavior has many and widespread manifestations, the question raised in this essay is whether explanatory power is improved by giving a greater role to energy and energy transitions in the K-wave process(es). Eight specific implications are traced, ranging from the interaction of...
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Malign Versus Benign Motivations

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 117 –142

[The thesis of this chapter is that the recent emphasis on democracy as the transformational key to a more benign world politics reflects the old analytical battle between emphasizing evil versus tragedy. An emphasis on democratization stresses the evil side of the equation and tends to ignore...
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Economic Rivalry and Global War

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 143 –177

[Systemic wars mean many things to different analysts. Complex affairs lend themselves to a variety of interpretations—many of which may be plausible. Rather than attempting to sort out the analytical disarray, I propose to add to the interpretative cacophony (and the complexity) by stressing a...
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Precipitants, Nonlinearities, and Structural Change

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 179 –205

[“Streetcar’’ interpretations of world politics emphasize the significance of contingent catalysts vis-à-vis structural variables and multiple, nonlinear chains of causation, among other things. Ultimately, though, it is difficult to evaluate the significance of catalysts in the absence of...
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Trade, Growth, and Conflict

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 207 –226

[Processes of war, trade, and systemic leadership are often examined in isolation from one another. Sometimes, two of the three are studied together. Does war interrupt trade? Does systemic leadership reduce the level of warfare? Does systemic leadership lead to freer trade? While these are...
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Summary and Recapitulation

Thompson, William R.

Pages: 227 –238

[At the global level, new system leaders emerge from periods of global war at their peak positional standing. Their leadership is predicated on being the system’s center of technological innovation, leading the winning war coalition and possessing a predominant share of capabilities of global...

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