TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilpin,Robert
TI  - War and change in world politics
SN  - 9781461949046
AV  - JX1291 G37
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - International relations
KW  - Research
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - International
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index; The nature of international political change --; Stability and change --; Growth and expansion --; Equilibrium and decline --; Hegemonic War and international change --; Change and continuity in world politics
N2  - War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential growth of power in the international system and the result of this unevenness. A shift in the balance of power - economic or military - weakens the foundations of the existing system, because those gaining power see the increasing benefits and the decreasing cost of changing the system. The result, maintains Gilpin, is that actors seek to alter the system through territorial, political, or economic expansion until the marginal costs of continuing change are greater than the marginal benefits. When states develop the power to change the system according to their interests they will strive to do so- either by increasing economic efficiency and maximizing mutual gain, or by redistributing wealth and power in their own favour
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