Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European…
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Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy owes a great deal to the editor who persuaded him to add a final chapter to this study of the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of European powers since the age of Spain's Philip II. Pondering whether the United States would ultimately suffer the same decline as every imperium that preceded it, it was this chapter that made The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers a dinner party talking point in Washington government circles. This tailpiece indulged in what was, for an historian, a most unusual activity: it looked into the future.
In so doing, it elevated Kennedy to the ranks of public intellectuals whose opinions were canvassed on matters of state policy.From a strictly academic point of view, the virtues of Kennedy's work lie elsewhere, and specifically in his flair for asking the sort of productive questions that characterize a great
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