Racing to the Top

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-069968-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

In the international political economy of the last two millennia, there tends to be one state leading the world as the foremost producer of energy and new technology. In Racing to the Top, William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova argue that the US and China, like previous leading countries, rely on energy transition, or the development of alternative energy, in order to make new technology relatively inexpensive to develop and to fuel. While the US has historically held the lead, its edge in the global energy economy appears to be eroding, and as energy leadership diminishes, so does the country's position in world politics. Thompson and Zakhirova take a long view in order to show what will be necessary for a new power to emerge as the system leader, then map a path forward for energy policy. Informed by a deep knowledge of world history, political economy, and environmental technology, this book is the first complete overview of energy transitions over the past thousand years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson

Thompson, William R.

Zakhirova, Leila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Introduction

- Chapter 1: Systemic Leadership and Energy: The Argument

- Chapter 2: The Leadership Long Cycle Framework

- Chapter 3: Revising the Framework: Long Cycles, Eurasian History and the Role of Energy

- Part II: The Past

- Chapter 4: Rome as the Pinnacle of the Western Ancient World

- Chapter 5: China: The Incomplete Transition

- Chapter 6: The Netherlands: Not Quite the First Modern Economy and Its Immediate Predecessors

- Chapter 7: Britain: The First Modern Industrial Economy Combining Technology and Energy

- Chapter 8: The United States: Emulating and Surpassing Britain

- Chapter 9: Comparing the Four Main Cases

- Part III: The Future

- Chapter 10: Global Warming and (Possibly) the Nature of the Next World Economy Upswing

- Chapter 11: Fracking, Warming, and Systemic Leadership

- Chapter 12: Racing to a Renewable Transition?

- Chapter 13: Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change

- References

Über Autor(innen)

William R. Thompson is a Distinguished Professor and Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Recent books include How Rivalries End (Pennsylvania, 2013), Transition Scenarios (Chicago, 2013), and Ascending India and Its State Capacity (Yale, 2016).

Leila Zakhirova is an assistant professor of political science at Concordia College. She is a co-editor of Asian Security.