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Power politics /Rob de Wijk.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: [Amsterdam?] : AUP, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (212 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048529896
  • 9048529891
  • 9789048529902
  • 9048529905
Other title:
  • Power politics, how China and Russia reshape the world [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JZ1313 .P694 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: 19th-century behaviour in the 21st century? -- Power and world order -- Power and prosperity -- What determines a country's power? -- The rise and fall of great powers -- The consequences of declining power -- The declining power of Europe -- Europe's soft power -- The struggle for Ukraine -- The rising power of China -- Conclusion: a stable or unstable world? -- Notes -- Index.
Subject: We tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why power politics never truly went away-and why, as the West's position weakens, it's likely to play a bigger and bigger role on the global stage in the coming years.
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"Originally published as: Rob de Wijk, Machtspolitiek ... translation: Vivien Collingwood" --

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Introduction: 19th-century behaviour in the 21st century? -- Power and world order -- Power and prosperity -- What determines a country's power? -- The rise and fall of great powers -- The consequences of declining power -- The declining power of Europe -- Europe's soft power -- The struggle for Ukraine -- The rising power of China -- Conclusion: a stable or unstable world? -- Notes -- Index.

We tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why power politics never truly went away-and why, as the West's position weakens, it's likely to play a bigger and bigger role on the global stage in the coming years.

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