Contents

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xvii

Acknowledgments

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction: new perspectives on the causes and management of systems crisis

pp 1-16

Part 1 - Dynamics of state power and role: systems structure

pp 17-18

1 - What is power cycle theory? Introducing the main concepts

pp 19-43

2 - Measuring national capability and power

pp 44-58

3 - The cycle of state power and role

pp 59-90

Part 2 - Dynamics of major war and systems transformation

pp 91-92

4 - Critical intervals on the power cycle: why wars become major

pp 93-116

5 - Systemic disequilibrium and world war

pp 117-140

Part 3 - Dynamics of general equilibrium and world order

pp 141-142

6 - Prerequisites of world order: international political equilibrium

pp 143-165

7 - World order and systems transformation: guidelines for statecraft

pp 166-190

Part 4 - Systems transformation and world order at century's end

pp 191-192

8 - Systems change since 1945: instability at critical points and awareness of the power cycle

pp 193-211

9 - Is decline inevitable? U.S. leadership and the systemic security dilemma

pp 212-236

10 - Systems transformation and the new imperatives of high politics

pp 237-259

Appendix: Mathematical relations in the power cycle

pp 260-267

References

pp 268-285

Index

pp 286-294