Power Transitions

The AuthorsRonald L. Tammen is Chair of the Department of National Strategy and Professor of National Strategy at the National War College in Washington D.C. Jacek Kugler is the Elisabeth Helms Rosecrans Professor of International Relations at the School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University. Douglas Lemke is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan. Allan C. Stam III is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University. Mark Andrew Abdollahian is Vice President of Decision Insights, Inc., a New York consulting firm that forecasts political and economic events. Carole Alsharabati is an assistant professor at the Balamand University Business School and on the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University Saint Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon. Brian Efird is an Associate at Decision Insights, Inc. in New York. A.F.K. Organski was Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a cofounder of Decision Insights Inc.

Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments A Tribute to A.F.K. OrganskiPart I. Foundations1. Power Transition Theory for the Twenty-first Century2. Power Transition Theory Tested in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesPart II. Applications3. Regional Applications: Multiple Hierarchies4. Security Applications: Deterrence and Proliferation5. Economic Applications: Growth, Trade, and DemocracyPart III. Policy Changes6. The Realignment Challenge: The Expansion of NATO7. The Asian Challenge8. The World to Come Notes Index About the Authors