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Intro -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 - THE FIVE STAGES-OF-GROWTH-A SUMMARY -- THE TRADITIONAL SOCIETY -- THE PRECONDITIONS FOR TAKE-OFF -- THE TAKE-OFF -- THE DRIVE TO MATURITY -- THE AGE OF HIGH MASS-CONSUMPTION -- BEYOND CONSUMPTION -- A DYNAMIC THEORY OF PRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 3 - THE PRECONDITIONS FOR TAKE-OFF -- THE TWO CASES -- THE NATURE OF THE TRANSITION -- THE ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSITION -- TWO SECTORAL PROBLEMS -- AGRICULTURE AND THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES -- SOCIAL OVERHEAD CAPITAL -- NON-ECONOMIC CHANGE -- THE TRANSITIONAL COALITIONS -- THE ALTERNATIVE DIRECTIONS OF NATIONALISM -- THE FIRST TAKE-OFF -- CHAPTER 4 - THE TAKE-OFF -- THE ACHIEVEMENT OF REGULAR GROWTH -- THE TAKE-OFF DEFINED AND ISOLATED -- EVIDENCE ON INVESTMENT-RATES IN THE TAKE-OFF -- THE INNER STRUCTURE OF THE TAKE-OFF -- THE SUPPLY OF LOANABLE FUNDS -- THE SOURCES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- LEADING SECTORS IN THE TAKE-OFF -- THE TAKE-OFF IN PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 5 - THE DRIVE TO MATURITY -- DEFINITION AND TIMING -- SECTORAL PATTERNS OF MATURITY: RAILWAYS AND THEIR AFTERMATH -- SWEDEN -- JAPAN -- RUSSIA -- SOME PROBLEMS IN DEFINING MATURITY -- MATURITY IN PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 6 - THE AGE OF HIGH MASS-CONSUMPTION -- THE THREE-WAY CHOICE -- THE AMERICAN CASE -- POST-MATURITY ELSEWHERE -- THE TERMS OF TRADE AFTER TWO WARS -- BEYOND HIGH MASS-CONSUMPTION -- CHAPTER 7 - RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN GROWTH -- A REMARKABLE PARALLEL -- THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES -- THE MILITARY QUESTION -- THE ECONOMIC QUESTION -- THE LOCUS OF THE CHALLENGE -- CHAPTER 8 - RELATIVE STAGES-OF-GROWTH AND AGGRESSION -- WAR IN MODERN HISTORY -- THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY -- THREE KINDS OF WARS -- COLONIALISM -- REGIONAL AGGRESSION -- STRUGGLES FOR THE EURASIAN POWER BALANCE -- THE CHOICE OF AGGRESSION.

This third edition of The Stages of Economic Growth, first published in 1991, has a new preface and appendix, Professor Rostow extends his analysis to include economic and political developments as well as the advances in theory concerning nonlinear and chaotic phenomena. For those coming to his work for the first time, the original text and the introductions and appendices from earlier editions are included. This volume will not only be of interest to those concerned with the theory of economic growth, but also to students of policy since the 1960s. In the text Professor Rostow gives an account of economic growth based on a dynamic theory of production and interpreted in terms of actual societies. Five basic stages of economic growth are distinguished with detailed discussions of each stage including illustrative examples. He also applies the concept of stages of growth to an examination of the problems of military aggression and the nuclear arms race. The final chapter includes a comparison of his non-communist manifesto with Marxist theory. Materials from the second edition include an appendix in which he responds to some of his critics

In The Stages of Economic Growth, for which he is known around the world, W. W. Rostow distinguished five basic stages of growth experienced by societies as they change from a pre-industrial state to full economic maturity. In this book the analysis is continued but the focus is shifted, from economic growth to politics. Professor Rostow see politics as an eternal triangle of competing imperatives - of security, welfare, and constitutional order. Using this concept, he examines the political meaning and content of each of the stages as experienced by eight countries; Great Britain, France, China, Japan, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and the United States. He goes on to consider, in the heart of the book, a uniquely political stage: the search for quality which is possible in an age of high mass consumption. Special attention is given the United States. Professor Rostow also examines the character of politics in the developing nations of today, and makes explicit what he sees to be the lessons of history and the contemporary world for these nations. He concludes by using his analysis to speculate on possibilities for peace in the global community

Die Geschichte des Kalten Krieges 1945-1987 läßt sich in Zyklen beschreiben. Strukturell wird er von Herausforderungen des "late-comers" Sowjetunion und verzögert einsetzenden amerikanischen Gegenreaktionen geprägt. Jedem Zyklus eigen ist eine Phase des relativen politischen Gleichgewichts, das auch gegenwärtig besteht. Die Entwicklung aber ist offen: Setzt nach herkömmlichem Muster - amerikanische Schwäche, ehrgeiziger sowjetischer Aktivismus, verzögerte US-Reaktion - ein erneuter Zyklus ein oder läßt die bestehende weltpolitische Struktur eine Beendigung des Kalten Krieges ohne Konfliktaustragung zu? In drei zentralen Bereichen müßten zwischen den Supermächten Übereinkünfte erzielt werden: nukleares Wettrüsten, die politische Ordnung Europas ohne hegemoniales Denken, Beilegung regionaler Konflikte. (SWP-Hld)