Fateful Transitions : : How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China's Ascendance / / Daniel M. Kliman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kliman, Daniel M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Haney Foundation Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1. Fateful Transitions --; Chapter 2. Power Shifts and Strategy --; Chapter 3. Pax Britannica Eclipsed --; Chapter 4. Germany Resurgent --; Chapter 5. Red Star Rising --; Chapter 6. Emerging Superpower --; Chapter 7. Neighboring Titan --; Chapter 8. Implications for the Twenty-First Century --; Appendix 1: Omitted Cases --; Appendix 2: Coding Checks and Balances --; Appendix 3: Measuring Freedom of the Press --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812290295; 9783110649826; 9783110369526; 9783110370416; 9783110665932
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812290295
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel M. Kliman.

As China emerges as a global force in the twenty-first century, questions of how existing great powers will navigate the geopolitical transition loom large. In Fateful Transitions, Daniel M. Kliman revisits historic power shifts to shed light on enduring patterns in international relations, demonstrating that the regime type of ascendant powers greatly influences global interactions.Since the late nineteenth century, the world's major democracies have tended to accommodate or conciliate ascendant democratic states. Certain attributes of democracy, such as a free press and domestic checks and balances, encourage trust during power shifts, whereas closed and autocratic regimes on the ascent tend to produce a cycle of suspicion, competition, and confrontation. Drawing on democratic peace theory and power transition theory, Kliman compares Great Britain's embrace of U.S. ascendancy in the early twentieth century to its confrontational stance toward autocratic Germany and later U.S. mistrust of the Soviet Union. Within this geopolitical context, he evaluates the interactions between China and current great powers, the United States and Japan. Building on this analysis, Kliman offers new insights into the dynamics of power shifts and explores their implications for how today's established and emerging powers can successfully navigate fateful transitions.