The Future of Global Conflict [Hardcover]

This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form?

The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form?

The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.Introduction - Christopher Chase-Dunn and Volker Bornschier
The Future of Hegemonic Rivalry in Perspective
PART ONE: DIFFERENT PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
From Leadership to Organization - George Modelski
The Evolution of Global Politics
The Next World War - Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik
World-System Cycles and Trends
Beyond Cycles of Hegemony - Walter L Goldfrank
Economic, Social and Military Factors
Hegemonic Transition, West European Unification and the Future Structure of the Core - Volker Bornschier
PART TWO: POST-WAR SHIFTS IN THE WORLD POLITICAL ECONlÃ8