Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018) Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from “Book Review Roundtable: Rising Titans, Falling Giants” from our sister publication, the Texas National Security Review. Be sure to check out the full roundtable. Backed up by exhaustive research in primary and secondary sources, Rising Titans, Falling Giants undermines large areas of conventional wisdom in security studies. In this scholarly tour de force, Joshua Shifrinson argues that the optimal strategy for a rising great power vis-à-vis a declining peer is to crush it, or at least weaken it, if … Continue reading Not Necessarily Done When You’ve Won: On Kicking a Great Power When It’s Down
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Not Necessarily Done When You’ve Won: On Kicking a Great Power When It’s Down
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018) Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from “Book Review Roundtable: Rising Titans, Falling Giants” from our sister publication, the Texas National Security Review. Be sure to check out the full roundtable. Backed up by exhaustive research in primary and secondary sources, Rising Titans, Falling Giants undermines large areas of conventional wisdom in security studies. In this scholarly tour de force, Joshua Shifrinson argues that the optimal strategy for a rising great power vis-à-vis a declining peer is to crush it, or at least weaken it, if … Continue reading Not Necessarily Done When You’ve Won: On Kicking a Great Power When It’s Down