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Author Shifrinson, Joshua R. Itzkowitz, author.

Title Rising titans, falling giants : how great powers exploit power shifts / Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 263 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cornell studies in security affairs
Cornell studies in security affairs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Predation theory -- A formerly Great Britain : predicting U.S. and Soviet strategy -- The American and Soviet response to Britain's decline -- Watching the Soviet Union decline : assessing change and predicting U.S. strategy -- U.S. strategy and the decline of the Soviet Union -- Conclusion : rising powers, the fate of declining states, and the future of great power politics.
Summary "Explores the strategies that rising powers adopt toward declining powers and asks why newly powerful states often choose not to take immediate advantage of a former power's weaknesses but rather support and manage that decline in a peaceable fashion"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
United States.
International relations.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Great powers -- History -- 20th century.
Great powers.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Balance of power -- History -- 20th century.
Balance of power.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title How great powers exploit power shifts
Other Form: Print version: Shifrinson, Joshua R. Itzkowitz. Rising titans, falling giants. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501725050 (DLC) 2018002247
ISBN 9781501725067 electronic book
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