Broken Cycle: World Politics in the Age of Dissent [Paperback]

Examines the end of the long cycle of great-power wars determining who rules and what ideas prevail in world politics.To understand the end of the Liberal International Order, international politics must be viewed through a dynamic lens focused on the long cycle of great power rise and decline  where periodic global wars determine who rules and what ideas and values will predominate in the reordered international system.To understand the end of the Liberal International Order, international politics must be viewed through a dynamic lens focused on the long cycle of great power rise and decline  where periodic global wars determine who rules and what ideas and values will predominate in the reordered international system.Why is the Liberal International Order unraveling  and will this lead to global disorder? Broken Cycle?explores this urgent question by viewing international politics through a dynamic lens focused on the rise and fall of great powers  whose periodic global wars determine who rules and which ideas and values prevail in the reordered international system. Randall L. Schweller uncovers recurring patterns of change, offering a framework to anticipate the contours of the emerging world. Rather than tracking short-term diplomatic shifts, this book seeks the deeper rhythms of history  cycles of growth, expansion, and decline  that shape international politics over centuries. These patterns are not inevitable, but they are powerful. By understanding them, we gain insight into the forces driving today's dissent  and tomorrow's possibilities. This is a study of the structural forces that govern change, the crises that break the old order, and the ideas that rise in its place.1. The stalled cycle of world politics; 2. The long cycle of great-power rise and fall; 3. Revisionism and change within the long cycle; 4. The history of the long cycle; 5. An emerging world that defies historical analogies; 6. Four core features of contemporary world politics; 7.lÃ6