Twilight of the Titans(English, Electronic book text, MacDonald Paul K.)

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Twilight of the Titans(English, Electronic book text, MacDonald Paul K.) is written by MacDonald Paul K. and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501717103 (ISBN 10) and 9781501717109 (ISBN 13).

In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to moderate their behavior when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. Challenging the conventional wisdom that such transitions push declining great powers to extreme measures, this book argues that intimidation, provocation, and preventive war are not the only alternatives to the loss of relative power and prestige. Using numerous case studies, MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, the policy options they have, how rising states respond to those in decline, and what conditions reward particular strategic choices.