Twilight of the Titans : : Great Power Decline and Retrenchment / / Joseph M. Parent, Paul K. MacDonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: MacDonald, Paul K.,; Parent, Joseph M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 3 tables, 2 charts, 2 graphs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures --; Chapter 2. Parry to Thrust --; Chapter 3. The Fates of Nations --; Studies in Revival --; Chapter 4. A Hegemon Temporizes --; Chapter 5. A Hegemon Wakes Up --; Chapter 6. A Descending Whirligig --; Chapter 7. “Les Jeux Sont Faits” --; Chapter 8. Tsar Power --; Chapter 9. The Utopian Background --; Conclusion: Retrenchment as Reloading --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501717109; 9783110606553; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604016; 9783110603231
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501717109?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph M. Parent, Paul K. MacDonald.

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.