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Paul, Kennedy.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers [Текст] :
Textbook / Kennedy Paul. - New York : Random House, 1987. - 704 p.
- Б. ц.
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Rise and Fall of the Great Powers --
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Аннотация: "Although the United States is at present still
in class of its own economically and perhaps even militarily, it
cannot avoid confronting the two great tests which chalenge te
longevity of every major power that occupies the 'number one'
position in world affairs: whether, in the military/ strategical
realm, it can presserve a reasonable balance between the nation's
perceived defense requirements and the means it ppossesses to
maintain those commitments; and whether, as an intimately related
point, it can preserve the technological and economic bases of its
power from relative erosion in the face of the ever-shifting
patterns of global production. This test of American abilities will
be the greater because it, like imperial Spain around 1600 or the
British Empire around 1900, is the inheritor of a vast array of
strategical commitments which had been made decades earlier, when
the nation's political, economic, and military capacity to
influence world affairs seemed so much more assured. In
consequence, the United States now runs the risk, so familiar to
historians of the rise and fall of prevous Great powers, of what
might roughly be called 'imperial overstretch': that is to say,
decision makers in Washington must face the awkward and enduring
fact that the sum total of the United States' global interests and
obligations is nowadays far larger than the country's power to
defend them all simultaneously".
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