The rise & fall of great powers

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1. jarielOct 2020
   You might be interested in this [1] 'Rise and Fall of Great Powers' - they go through the industrial output numbers in great detail from 1500-1950 and articulate Russia's constant problems at length.

   And yes, Japan and China were 'way behind' as well in most of the modern era.

   [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great....

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2. jacques_chesterJul 2013
   I personally suspect that there are no strategies that are stable over multiple generations. Otherwise one would have emerged. Basically that there is a kind of political thermodynamics that destroys all nations, no matter how great.

   Peter Turchin has developed an interesting family of theories about the rise and fall of great powers. He wrote a popular account, War and Peace and War, which I reviewed here:

   http://chester.id.au/2012/05/14/review-war-and-peace-and-war...

   As a footnote, I found why he used the term 'Asabiya'. It comes from an earlier historian, Ibn al-Khaldun.

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3. rwmjDec 2010
   A good time to plug "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy. I'm some of the way through this and it's a superb book.
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4. sownSep 2008
   This all reminds me of a book by historian Paul Kennedy. "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers." Y'all should read it.
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