Systemic Transitions

Introduction: How Might We Know That a Systemic Transition Is Underway? Clues for the Twenty-First Century

• William R. Thompson

Front Matter

Relative Decline: Why Does It Induce War or Sustain Peace?

• Steve Chan, Brock F. Tessman

Transitions in Hegemony: A Theory Based on State Type and Technology

• Peter J. Hugill

Structural Preludes to Systemic Transition since 1494

• William R. Thompson

Falling Down: An Empirical Test of Dynamic Differentials Theory 1500–1999

• Michael Lee

Front Matter

Searching for Changing Organizational Architecture during Global Transition: Where Is the Post—Cold War Order?

• Thomas J. Volgy, Keith A. Grant, Elizabeth Fausett

Whether and How Global Leadership Transitions Will Result in War: Some Long-Term Predictions from the Steps-to-War Explanation

• John A. Vasquez

Implications of Asia’s Rise to Global Status

• Jacek Kugler, Ronald L. Tammen

Kantian Dynamics and Systemic Transitions: Can International Organizations Influence U.S.-China Conflict?

• David P. Rapkin, William R. Thompson

Exploration of Connections between Energy Use and Leadership Transitions

• David J. Lepoire

Front Matter

The Evolutionary Trajectory of the World System toward an Age of Transition

• Tessaleno C. Devezas

Cities in Transitions and Transformations: Exploring a Jacobsean Approach to Macro-Social Change

• Peter J. Taylor

Scale Transitions and the Evolution of Global Governance since the Bronze Age

• Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue