Grand Strategies of Weak States and Great Powers

ISBN-13: 9783319704036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 253 str.

Hanna Samir Kassab

Opis

Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part 1: Theory

2. Grand Strategies of States in Anarchy: Prestige and Self-Determination

3. Balance of World Systems and Neo-Empire

4. Systems-Creation and Competition

Part 2: Case Studies

5. The Global South and the Neo-Empires of the United States and China

6. Neo-Empires Under Construction: The European Union and Eurasian Union

Part 3: Cognitive Theory

7. States as Psychopaths, Theorists as Psychoanalysts: The Reason for War

8. Two Choices: War or Peace

9. Conclusion

O autorze

Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.

Blurb

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of states of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power, position determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions. 

Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.