Leading sectors and world powers : the coevolution of global politics and economics /

The idea that political and economic power moves in coordinated cycles has long intrigued political scientists and political economists, for if a pattern exists in the rise and fall of international political power, a model explaining this pattern gains predictive qualities. In Leading Sectors and W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Modelski, George
Other Authors: Thompson, William R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1996]
Series:Studies in international relations (Columbia, S.C.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Problem and Premises
  • 2. The Confused State of the Literature
  • 3. A Critique of the Literature
  • 4. Long Cycles, War, and Long-term Economic Growth
  • 5. Do K-Waves and Long Cycles Coevolve?
  • 6. Leading Sectors in the Global Economy: Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries, K-Waves 9-18
  • 7. Testing for Coevolution
  • 8. An Enlarged Framework
  • 9. Sung China and the Evolving Global Economy: Tenth to Twelfth Centuries, K-Waves 1-4
  • 10. Renaissance Italy: Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries, K-Waves 5-8
  • 11. The Nineteenth K-Wave and No Global War?