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The post-imperial age : the great powers and the wider world
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ISBN: 0582227194 Year: 1994 Volume: 2 Publisher: London New York Longman

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Superpowers in the post-Cold War era
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ISBN: 0333760697 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Macmillan Press

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Normen und Praxis : das Europäische Konzert der Grossmächte als Sicherheitsrat, 1815-1860
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ISBN: 3486587889 9783486587883 Year: 2009 Publisher: München : R. Oldenbourg,

Grossmacht auf Bewährung : die Interdependenz französischer Innen- und Aussenpolitik und ihre Auswirkungen auf Frankreichs Stellung im europäischen Konzert 1814/15-1851/52
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ISBN: 3799574476 9783799574471 Year: 2001 Volume: 53

The ideological origins of great power politics, 1789-1989
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ISBN: 0801443210 Year: 2005 Volume: *18 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

Crisis diplomacy : the great powers since the mid-nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0521459877 0521453925 0511559119 Year: 1994 Volume: 35 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Although much has been written on international crises, the literature suffers from a lack of historical depth, and a proliferation of competing theoretical frameworks. Through case studies drawing on the rich historical experience of crisis diplomacy, James Richardson offers an integrated analysis based on a critical assessment of the main theoretical approaches. Due weight is given to systemic and structural factors, but also to the specific historical factors of each case, and to theories which do not presuppose rationality as well as those which do. Crisis diplomacy the major political choices made by decision makers, and their strategies, judgments and misjudgments - is found to play a crucial role in each of the case studies. This broad historical inquiry is especially timely when the ending of the Cold War has removed the settled parameters within which the superpowers conducted their crisis diplomacy.

Defence and diplomacy : Britain and the Great Powers, 1815-1914
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ISBN: 0719035201 0719035198 9780719035197 9780719035203 Year: 1993 Publisher: Manchester, UK New York Manchester University Press

US-China relations in the 21st century : power transition and peace.
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ISBN: 0415702089 9780415702089 0415702089 9780203086582 9781135989910 9781135989958 9781135989965 9780415497343 Year: 2006 Volume: *6 Publisher: London Routledge

Asymmetric conflicts : war initiation by weaker powers
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ISBN: 0521466210 0521451175 0511598742 Year: 1994 Volume: 33 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines a question generally neglected in the study of international relations: why does a militarily and economically less powerful state initiate conflict against a relatively strong state? T. V. Paul analyses this phenomenon by focusing on the strategic and political considerations, domestic and international, which influence a weaker state to initiate war against a more powerful adversary. The key argument of deterrence theory is that the military superiority of the status quo power, coupled with a credible retaliatory threat, will prevent attack by challengers. The author challenges this assumption by examining six twentieth-century asymmetric wars, from the Japanese offensive against Russia in 1904 to the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982. The book's findings have wide implications for the study of war, power, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, strategy, arms races, and alliances.


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Winnaars en verliezers : een nieuwe vorm van democratie
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ISBN: 9789025434250 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam Antwerpen Contact

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