TY - BOOK ID - 49920388 TI - Networks of domination : the social foundations of peripheral conquest in international politics PY - 2014 SN - 0199362173 1306637554 9780199362172 9781306637558 9780190217952 0190217952 9780199362165 0199362165 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - World politics KW - Balance of power. KW - Europe KW - Military policy. KW - Military relations. KW - Armed Forces. KW - History, Military. KW - Power, Balance of KW - Power politics KW - International relations KW - Political realism KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49920388 AB - In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. Much of Asia and Africa fell to the armies of the European great powers, and by World War I, those armies controlled 40 percent of the world's territory and 30 percent of its population. Conventional wisdom states that these conquests were the product of European military dominance or technological superiority, but the reality was far more complex. In Networks of Domination, Paul MacDonald argues that an ability to exploit the internal political situation within a ER -