Logic of the Growth of Great Powers - An International Political Sociology Analysis of Western Great Power Rise

Author: Guo Shuyong / Country:
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book adopts new theories and perspectives from international political sociology, taking the relationship between state growth and the international community as the starting point. It uses orderliness development, legitimacy of war, and great power image as research variables to reinterpret the historical patterns of successful rise among Western powers such as France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States since the Thirty Years' War. It goes beyond Paul Kennedy's methods and conclusions in observing the rise and fall of great powers, supplements Joseph Nye's recent soft power theory, and proposes the proposition that great power growth is the unity of material growth and social growth. The book provides unique and detailed elaborations on key issues such as soft power, great power image, the contrast between the rise of Germany and Japan, and the mystery of U.S. growth. It also offers strategic insights for great powers in the process of growth, making it an academic monograph in China that uses international political sociology to study the strategy of great power rise.