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  <title><![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers]]></title>
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  <default_description>About national and international power in the &quot;modern&quot; or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the &quot;new monarchies&quot; in W. Europe.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Kennedy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 14:21:00 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Back when I was in college, I felt the need for a course that looked at how economics, politics and warfare all combined to form statecraft. I never got to take that non-existent course, but got what I wanted in &quot;Rise and Fall of Great Powers.&quot; <br/><br/>Paul Kennedy wrote a 500-year his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41749426">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 03 18:12:56 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 03 18:13:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As Kennedy puts it in his &quot;Introduction,&quot; &quot;This is a book about national and international power in the &quot;modern&quot;--that is, post-Renaissance--period. It seeks to trace and to explain how the various great powers have risen and fallen. . . .&quot; And, on the same page: <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76642648">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 23 17:05:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 17:08:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The key determinant (@ Kennedy) is relative, not absolute decline).  British GDP grew, in absolute terms, while it declined relative to the US and others.  Thus do great powers ebb...  <br/><br/>The US peaked in early 2000, though a debt bubble managed to keep things aloft for another few  years....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53768564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12826420">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 18 06:50:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 18 07:21:03 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this tome is undoubtedly a seminal work of history, its arguments are fatally flawed and ultimately unsatisfactory.  His attempt is really to determine why Europe emerged as the leader of the international system in the 20th century as opposed to other traditional power centers in Asia and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12826420">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 28 10:19:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 30 12:18:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Densely loaded with economic, demographic, and other historical data makes this book's conclusions all the more solid and reasonable. The book has aged well since its publication, now decades old (The small exception being the final chapter, in which he proceeds to contemplate the &quot;approaching...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54245597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16001764">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 21 10:50:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 21 12:43:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't a light read; it's densely loaded with economic, demographic, and other historical data.  That makes its conclusions all the more solid and reasonable, though, and the book has aged well since its publication, now decades ago.  Kennedy's explanation for why different empires have risen to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16001764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43000014">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 14 06:23:22 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 14 06:24:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intermittently prescient review of how great powers typically come to grief when they abandon manufacturing for &quot;paper economies.&quot;  Even more relevant today.]]></body>
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    <review id="43123023">
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    <body><![CDATA[A re-read, really. This time around, I'm impressed by how clearly he saw the emergence of the multipolar world twenty-plus years ago. ]]></body>
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    <review id="67142950">
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2008/02/rise-and-fall-of-great-powers.html" title="http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2008/02/rise-and-fall-of-great-powers.html">http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2008/02/r...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59429868">
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    <name><![CDATA[Evghenia]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;To paraphrase Bismarck's famous remark, all of these Powers are traveling on 'the stream of Time,' which they can 'neither create nor direct,' but upon which they can 'steer with more or less skill and experience'&quot; (Kennedy 540).]]></body>
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    <review id="19978108">
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 11 19:48:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An examination of economics and military power and how empires invariably overstretch and th economic strength can no longer fund the military might to protect itself.  When the military expenditures are too much for the economy to sustain, inflation occurs and economic rot leading invariably to dec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19978108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6146205">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[any who wants to know more about history.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 13 09:07:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 18 09:40:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It reveals how unique Europe is in terms of its political, linguistic, religious and geographical fragmentation and raises the question, why was it able to dominate more monolithic empires and civilizations in the later half of the second millennium.]]></body>
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    <review id="393535">
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    <body><![CDATA[First chapter says it all. Subsequent chapters review histories of other powers that rose and fell. Looks like US is making some of the same errors. We never learn. [Perennially at my bedside, I'm having a tough time getting through this one.]]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 10 23:55:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 19 12:50:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[with the phrase &quot;Rise and Fall&quot; in its tittle, wasn't it suppose to be another Khaldunian or Toynbee-an historical writing?<br/><br/>Secara populer, lebih berupaya melihat bagaimana AS dapat muncul pasca PD II sebagai kekuatan dunia.]]></body>
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    <review id="1094680">
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    <body><![CDATA[A profound look at the similiarites and differences between the U.S. and the Soviet Union before the collapse. Essential reading for 20th century history buffs. ]]></body>
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    <review id="25606340">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very bland style but makes up for it with great substance. Does a great job of explaining the socio-political beginnings of Western supremacy.]]></body>
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    <review id="29454396">
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    <body><![CDATA[Little hard to read, but an interesting look at the great powers from 1500 to now (at least to 1987 when it was written)]]></body>
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    <review id="37664622">
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    <body><![CDATA[Comprehensive review of what led each great power to rise and fall.....&quot;past is prologue.&quot;]]></body>
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