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Given today's heightened competition between national economies in
the global marketplace, many have come to believe that government
intervention is needed in order for a country to maximize its
economic well-being. But to what extent can even the most capable
government act to attract investment and enhance economic growth
without creating or exac
Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only
internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This
book is about the future of the EU in the light of global power
transition taking place in the twenty-first century and
demonstrates how its future rests on a delicate balance between
policy challenge, member states' interests, and convergence or
divergence of societal values across its peoples. The book examines
factors behind the decline of the EU relative to the rise of China
and other powers in the global hierarchy and what policy options
are available for EU leaders to implement in order to compete as a
global actor. It analyses determinants of regional integration and
key policy challenges the EU faces in its quest for an "ever deeper
union," and identifies significant factors (i.e., power relations,
economic relations, emergent social values across the EU) that can
explain the likelihood of further integration or conflict between
EU member states. This text will be essential reading for scholars,
students, and practitioners interested in European Union politics
international relations, security studies, and comparative
politics.
Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only
internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This
book is about the future of the EU in the light of global power
transition taking place in the twenty-first century and
demonstrates how its future rests on a delicate balance between
policy challenge, member states' interests, and convergence or
divergence of societal values across its peoples. The book examines
factors behind the decline of the EU relative to the rise of China
and other powers in the global hierarchy and what policy options
are available for EU leaders to implement in order to compete as a
global actor. It analyses determinants of regional integration and
key policy challenges the EU faces in its quest for an "ever deeper
union," and identifies significant factors (i.e., power relations,
economic relations, emergent social values across the EU) that can
explain the likelihood of further integration or conflict between
EU member states. This text will be essential reading for scholars,
students, and practitioners interested in European Union politics
international relations, security studies, and comparative
politics.
This timely book offers a comprehensive examination of the current
state of nuclear stability postures worldwide, effectively
highlighting their inherent limitations. Through their analysis,
the authors illustrate how the seemingly contradictory perspectives
of deterrence optimists, disarmament idealists, and warfighting
pessimists can be reconfigured into a unified approach towards
achieving regional and global peace. They suggest that these
strategies can be reconciled as complementary, rather than
substitute approaches, to achieve the common goal of nuclear
stability. To achieve this objective, the book employs a
game-theoretical framework to analytically define the conditions
for nuclear war. Drawing from extensive observations of significant
crises, the model incorporates identifiable systemic regularities
that influence the strategic decision-making process during severe
crises and establish the prerequisites for different levels of
nuclear confrontation. Additionally, by tracing the
strategic-technological trajectories of nuclear powers, the authors
present a novel analysis that explores the potential for stable
coexistence to replace unstable confrontation between global
powers, ultimately fostering nuclear peace. The author's
theoretical explorations lead to the policy conclusion that
establishing a nuclear oligarchic hierarchy, under the leadership
of preponderant global powers committed to a no-first-use pledge,
presents the most effective international system for enhancing both
regional and global nuclear stability. This book aims to surpass
the Cold War origins of current nuclear strategy and develop a
comprehensive policy framework that guarantees enduring nuclear
stability in the contemporary world.
Given today's heightened competition between national economies in
the global marketplace, many have come to believe that government
intervention is needed in order for a country to maximize its
economic well-being. But to what extent can even the most capable
government act to attract investment and enhance economic growth
without creating or exacerbating conflicts in society--especially
when unpopular measures, such as those aimed at controlling
inflation and population growth, must be implemented?This timely
book by an international team of economists and political
scientists tackles that question head on. The contributors draw on
theory and empirical data to provide a framework for measuring
governments' ability to gather material resources and mobilize
populations. They analyze a variety of policy choices made in the
United States and in other nations around the world during the past
fifty years, showing how states can increase their political
capacity and thereby reduce economic transaction costs and domestic
resistance to government goals.
This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key
regions across the globe, organized around power transition theory.
Tracking political and economic trajectories broadly, the
contributors use cutting-edge data to forecast general trends in
regional politics, economics, and diplomacy. Their collective
insights into the likely directions of regional dynamics within a
changing global order comprise an invaluable guidebook for
forward-thinking readers considering where the world is headed in
the coming decades and the implications for strategy, politics, and
policy.
This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key
regions across the globe, organized around power transition theory.
Tracking political and economic trajectories broadly, the
contributors use cutting-edge data to forecast general trends in
regional politics, economics, and diplomacy. Their collective
insights into the likely directions of regional dynamics within a
changing global order comprise an invaluable guidebook for
forward-thinking readers considering where the world is headed in
the coming decades and the implications for strategy, politics, and
policy.
Why do some nations fail while others succeed? How can we compare
the political capacity of a totalitarian regime to a democracy? Are
democracies always more efficient? The Performance of Nations
answers these key questions by providing a powerful new tool for
measuring governments' strengths and weaknesses. Allowing
researchers to look inside countries down to the local level as
well as to compare across societies and over time, the book
demonstrates convincingly that political performance is the missing
link in measuring power and military capability. For the theorist,
political performance data helps to fill in the gaps when GDP alone
does not explain the outcome of wars. For the practical policy
specialist, political performance sheds a bright light on why some
governments succeed and some fail, why investments disappear in one
province but multiply in another, and why it is easier to promote
health programs in one region but not in its neighbor. This
groundbreaking book will be an essential resource for scholars,
policymakers, and institutions interested in measuring the
political capacities of nations and in knowing where foreign aid
and investment will be most effective. Contributions by: Mark
Abdollahian, Marina Arbetman-Rabinowitz, Constantine Boussalis,
Travis G. Coan, Yi Feng, Gaspare M. Genna, Kristin Johnson, Mathew
Jones, Kyungkook Kang, Mariah Kraner, Jacek Kugler, Tadeusz Kugler,
Hal T. Nelson, Masami Nishishiba, Peter Noordijk, Saumik Paul,
Siddharth Swaminathan, Ronald L. Tammen, John Thomas, Ayesha Umar
Wahedi, and Birol Yesilada.
This widely used and acclaimed text reader brings together some of
the best work on the onset of war, the expansion of war, the
conditions of peace, and the termination and impact of war.
Editorial commentary on the major findings and the statistical
analysis used in each study teaches students how to read the
article so that they can become literate in social science methods.
A learning package in the appendix provides a programmed text to
teach students how to interpret tables, read basic statistics, and
conduct elementary data analysis. Correlates of War data on
European countries is provided, and a methodological table of
contents allows instructors to assign articles from the easiest
(simple percentages) to the most advanced (time series and formal
modeling).
Parity and War is an impressive explanation of why peace
predominates in the international arena and why, on occasion, wars
do start. Useful for college students and scholars alike, the work
scrutinzes and tests ideas about power preponderance, first
discussed over a decade ago in the widely acclaimed book The War
Ledger. An alternative to traditional realism, power preponderence
contends that peace is preserved when a preponderant nation
supports the status quo. The theory convincingly accounts for war
initiation, recovery, and peace by analyzing military arms
buildups, alliances, territorial threats, economic cycles, and
nuclear environment deterrence and proliferation. The contributors
to this volume examine and analyze cases as diverse as the peaceful
collapse of the Soviet Union, the presence of interstate war in
South America in the last century and the absence thereof--despite
domestic war--in this century, the economic and political
consequences of the American Civil War, and the observation of
long-term patterns of conflict and peace in international
relations. Moreover, contributors to Parity and War utilize game
theory, expected utility, and differential calculus techniques to
model major war and to formalize the originally intuitive
propositions of power preponderance. Their timely research shows
that, in this era of nuclear weapons dominated by a single super
power, effective regime guidance by the United States can insure
peace for the next century. Contributors include Arina Arbetman,
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Vesna Danilovic, Daniel S. Geller, Kenk W.
Houweling, Kelly M. Kadera, Woosang Kim, Jacek Kugler, Douglas
Lemke, Ross A. Miller, James D. Morrow, A. F. K. Organski, Jan G.
Siccama, Randoph M. Siverson, Ronald Tammen, William R. Thompson,
John A. Vasquez, Frank Whelon Wayman, Suzanne Werner, and Frank C.
Zagare. Jacek Kugler is Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of
International Relations and Political Economy, Claremont College.
Douglas Lemke is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Florida
State University.
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