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Complexity and Great Power Decline
Complexity and Great Power Decline
Complexity and Great Power Decline

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211153115
ISBN  
9798384462590
DDC  
320
저자명  
Lopate, Michael.
서명/저자  
Complexity and Great Power Decline
발행사항  
[Sl] : The Ohio State University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
179 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Braumoeller, Bear F.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약Great power declines are rare and highly varied events of world historical importance. Despite near universal agreement that understanding the causes and process of decline is of existential importance, there is nothing resembling a scholarly consensus on any theory of decline. The following three papers cover the extant literature and justify the need for new theoretical work, present a new theory of state decline, and test that theory on the most well-known case of decline in the modern period: the collapse of the Soviet Union. Paper One provides an in-depth review of the decline literature, a collection of work that goes back centuries. While rich with ideas, it is hallmarked by informal and ad-hoc theories with untestable assumptions and hypotheses, weak or absent empirical strategies, and social/political judgements disguised as unbiased historical analysis. To make progress in this field would require a novel approach to thinking about decline.Paper Two sets out a new multi-level systemic theory of decline, drawing from innovative work in Complexity Theory. I argue that great power decline is the result of states seeking greatness in the first place, a goal that requires sacrifices in other areas of resilience and stability. States' attempts to manage risk and reward to maximize power creates vulnerabilities and those vulnerabilities can lead to declines. The theory is formally tested through a computational simulation model that shows how the proposed mechanisms can lead to decline.Paper Three applies the theory to the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the most important political declines in modern history. Through in-depth case research, the case demonstrates the theoretical mechanisms and shows that the decline was the result of deliberate choices made by the state in the pursuit of power. The USSR accepted instability to break out of stagnation, making a rational risk calculation. But payoffs are never guaranteed: instead of increasing performance and competitiveness with the United State, the state collapsed, in large part through the very mechanisms intended to revitalize the nation.
일반주제명  
Political science
일반주제명  
History
일반주제명  
Sociology
키워드  
Complexity
키워드  
Performance-robustness trade-off
키워드  
Highly optimized tolerance
키워드  
Agent-based modeling
키워드  
Decline
키워드  
International relations theory
기타저자  
The Ohio State University Political Science
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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