02182cam a22003255i 4500 27781 27752 011186739 EG-ScBUE 20191121135634.0 841203r19991983enka f b 001 0 eng d 0521273765 (pbk) : 9780521273763 Uk eng rda Uk EG-ScBUE 327.072 GIL 22 Gilpin, Robert, author. War and change in world politics / Robert Gilpin, Princeton University. Reprint edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Originally published 1981. Reprinted for first paperback edition 1983. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. International relations Research. BUEsh MASPPSS November2019 Reading book ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2019-11-20 Purchase 590.00 0 327.072 GIL 000048263 2025-07-15 00:00:00 737.50 2019-11-20 BB