Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires Contents : - The rise of the western world - The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659 - Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815 - Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885 - The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part one, 18…
Examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those in recent memory
"Why nations succeed and fail"--Cover
The American Era makes a provocative argument about America's world role. It sets out the case for a grand strategy that recognizes American preponderance as necessary and desirable for coping with the perils of the post-9/11 world. The book argues firstly that, Militant Islamic terrorism and weapons of mass destruction pose a threat which requires us to alter the way we think about the pre-emp…