Grand Strategies of Weak States and Great Powers

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power and position, determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Grand Strategies of States in Anarchy: Prestige and Self-Determination.- 3. Balance of World Systems and Neoempire.- 4. Systems-Creation and Competition.- 5. The Global South and the Neoempires of the United States and China.- 6. NeoEmpires Under Construction: The European Union and Eurasian Union.- 7. States as Psychopaths; Theorists as Psychoanalysts: The Reason for War.- 8. Two Choices: War or Peace.- 9. Conclusion.

About the author

Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.

Summary

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power and position, determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions. 

Product details

• Authors: Hanna Samir Kassab
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319704036
• ISBN: 978-3-31-970403-6
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 461 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 253 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Diplomatie, B, Krieg und Verteidigung, International Relations, foreign policy, Warfare & defence, auseinandersetzen, Political Science and International Studies, Diplomacy, International Relations Theory, International institutions, International Organization, International Security Studies, Security, International, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies