The Weary Titan

Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-691-14800-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 343 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

How do statesmen become aware of unfavorable shifts in relative power, and how do they seek to respond to them? These are puzzles of considerable importance to theorists of international relations. As national decline has become an increasingly prominent theme in American political debate, these questions have also taken on an immediate, pressing significance. The Weary Titan is a penetrating study of a similar controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Aaron Friedberg explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power. The British example suggests that statesmen may be slow to recognize shifts in international position, in part because they rely heavily on simple but often distorting indicators of relative capabilities. In a new afterword, Friedberg examines current debates about whether America is in decline, arguing that American power will remain robust for some time to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedberg, Aaron L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Maps xi
Preface xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii

Chapter One: International Relations Theory and the Assessment of National Power 3
Chapter Two: Economic Power: The Loss of Industrial PReeminence 21
Chapter Three: Financial Power: The Growing Burdens of Empire 89
Chapter Four: Sea Power: The Surrender of Worldwide Supremacy 135
Chapter Five: Land Power: The Dilemma of Indian Defense 209
Chapter Six: Change, Assessment, and Adaption 279

Chapter Seven: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline 292
Afterword to the 2010 Edition 305
Bibliography 319
Index 337

Über Autor(innen)

Friedberg, Aaron L.
Aaron L. Friedberg is professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "In the Shadow of the Garrison State" (Princeton).