The Rise and Fall Of World Orders

The rise and fall of great powers. Part I Patterns of the past: the wave of great wars - wars and wealth, wars, wealth and foundation myths, wars, values and global expansion, dawns of the new world orders the phrase of hegemony - on punitive pre-eminence, on remunerative pre-eminence, on normative pre-eminence, hegemony the phrase of challenge -challenge, response and Indian summers, the cost of pre-eminence I: the home front, the cost of pre-eminence II: the world scene, conclusion the phrase of disruptive competition - the changing international order, increasing defence costs, domestic unrest, unravelling of old orders, decline and fall of great powers the rise and fall of world orders -cyclical patterns of modern world orders, secular trends in modern world history, cycles trends and the future of international relations. Part II Deja vu: wars to end all wars - domestic upheavals, foreign wars, war and material might, forging a new world order pax Americana - on military pre-eminence, on economic pre-eminence, on normative pre-eminence, American Hegemony, Hegemony and Podsnappery challenges, responses and nuclear weapons - world economic challenges, interstate challenges, normative challenges, conclusions challenges the end of US Hegemony? -changes in the world economy and US stagnation, interstate challenges and increasing defence costs, moral fragmentation, American decline? And then there was one - the contemporary world-order cycle, secular trends or modern world politics, the uncertain revival.