The rise and fall of world orders Nicole Robertson

The rise and fall of world orders Nicole RobertsonDrawing in lessons from 400 years of Great Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Spanish, Dutch and the First and Second British world orders. It identifies their common features in order to find the most salient causes for their rise as world

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