Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part 1: Theory
2. Grand Strategies of States in Anarchy: Prestige and Self-Determination
3. Balance of World Systems and Neo-Empire
4. Systems-Creation and Competition
Part 2: Case Studies
5. The Global South and the Neo-Empires of the United States and China
6. Neo-Empires Under Construction: The European Union and Eurasian Union
Part 3: Cognitive Theory
7. States as Psychopaths, Theorists as Psychoanalysts: The Reason for War
8. Two Choices: War or Peace
9. Conclusion
