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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: The Fragile Global Economy -- CHAPTER ONE: The Second Great Age of Capitalism -- CHAPTER TWO: The Cold War International Economy -- CHAPTER THREE: The Insecure Trading System -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Unstable Monetary System -- CHAPTER FIVE: Global Financial Vulnerability -- CHAPTER SIX: Age of the Multinational -- CHAPTER SEVEN: European Regional Integration -- CHAPTER EIGHT: American Economic Strategy -- CHAPTER NINE: Asian Regionalism -- CHAPTER TEN: Globalization and Its Discontents -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Managing the Global Economy -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE. The Nature of Political Economy -- The Issues of Political Economy -- The Importance of the Market -- The Economic Consequences of a Market -- Market Effects and Political Responses -- Conclusion -- TWO. Three Ideologies of Political Economy -- The Liberal Perspective -- The Nationalist Perspective -- The Marxist Perspective -- A Critique of the Perspectives -- Three Challenges to a World Market Economy -- Welfare Capitalism in a Non-Welfare International Capitalist World

War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential growth of power in the international system and the result of this unevenness. A shift in the balance of power - economic or military - weakens the foundations of the existing system, because those gaining power see the increasing benefits and the decreasing cost of changing the system. The result, maintains Gilpin, is that actors seek to alter the system through territorial, political, or economic expansion until the marginal costs of continuing change are greater than the marginal benefits. When states develop the power to change the system according to their interests they will strive to do so- either by increasing economic efficiency and maximizing mutual gain, or by redistributing wealth and power in their own favour

Charles de Gaulle has often warned France and other European nations of the threat they face from advanced scientific and technological countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union. Robert Gilpin examines this "technological gap," which France fears, and the efforts France is making to introduce change and efficiency into her science administration. He discusses the gap as it affects all of Europe, and suggests that if western European nations are unable to form a common European administration of science policy, and remain the "main world importers of discoveries and exporters of brains," they may become steadily weaker in international affairs.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Examines the physicists' role in national decision making.

Presents the edited & shortened text of an interview conducted on 16 October 2003 with distinguished International Relations professor & author Robert Gilpin who describes himself as a "soft" realist. Gilpin maintains that the significance of ideas is apparent in the current importance of religion in international affairs. However, he maintains that ideas disappear if they do not get some kind of power behind them. When asked about US foreign policy, Gilpin contends that President George W. Bush is changing the definition of the American national interest through his doctrine of preventive war, making an enormous debate on America's future national interest is inevitable. He also suggests that the irresponsible economic & foreign policy of the US has led to the deterioration of both America's economic foundations & its relative position in the world. Other issues discussed include significant developments in the field of International Relations; books that influenced his thinking about international political economy; the relationship between economics & security; the impact of globalization; & recent theoretical trends in academic international relations. J. Lindroth