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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

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.