02341cam a22003375i 4500999001700000001001000017003000900027005001700036008004100053020002300094020001800117040003100135082002100166100002900187245007700216250002100293264006800314300004500382336002600427337002800453338002700481500003100508500004800539504005100587520111600638650004701754653002601801655001701827942001201844952014701856  c27781d27752011186739EG-ScBUE20191121135634.0841203r19991983enka   f b    001 0 eng d  a0521273765 (pbk) :  a9780521273763  aUkbengerdacUkdEG-ScBUE04a327.072bGIL2221 aGilpin, Robert,eauthor.10aWar and change in world politics /cRobert Gilpin, Princeton University.  aReprint edition. 1aCambridge, United Kingdom :bCambridge University Press,c1999.  axiv, 272 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aOriginally published 1981.  aReprinted for first paperback edition 1983.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aWar 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. 7aInternational relationsxResearch.2BUEsh   bMASPPSScNovember2019  vReading book  2ddccBB  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc1STd2019-11-20ePurchaseg590.00l0o327.072 GILp000048263r2025-07-15 00:00:00v737.50w2019-11-20yBB