Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End

Charles F. Doran (The Johns Hopkins University)

Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century's End
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 July 1991
Pages
316
ISBN
9780521401852

Systems in Crisis: New Imperatives of High Politics at Century’s End

Charles F. Doran (The Johns Hopkins University)

Uncertainty is the watchword of contemporary world politics. Monumental changes are occurring throughout the international system and statespeople are wrestling with peaceful solutions to them. In this book, Charles Doran proposes a managed solution to peaceful change. He presents a bold, original and wide-ranging analysis of the present balance of power, of future prospects for the international political system and of the problems involved in this transformation. Professor Doran demonstrates why such change has often been accompanied by world war and provides new insights into the causes of World War I. Developing a theory of the power cycle, the author reveals the structural bounds on statecraft and shows how the tides of history can suddenly and unexpectedly shift against the state.

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