The Future of Global Conflict

Introduction/The Future of Hegemonic Rivalry in Perspective/PART ONE: DIFFERENT PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE/From Leadership to Organization/The Evolution of Global Politics/The Next World War/World-System Cycles and Trends/Beyond Cycles of Hegemony/Economic Social and Military Factors/Hegemonic Transition West European Unification and the Future Structure of the Core/PART TWO: POST-WAR SHIFTS IN THE WORLD POLITICAL ECONOMY/Global Cooperation or Rival Trade Blocs?/Clashes of Life Spaces and Other Logics of Hegemonic Rivalry/Who Has the Most <i>Fortune</i> 500 Firms? A Network Analysis of Global Economic Competition 1956-89/Twenty-Fifty/The Hegemonic Moment of Global Capitalism/PART THREE: PROSPECTS FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE HEGEMONS/Japan - A Hegemonic Power? Reflections on Economic Success and Possible Political Futures/Germany the United States and Future Intercore Conflict/Future Hegemonic Rivalry between China and the West?/PART FOUR: LOOKING BACK AND AHEAD/Hegemony and Bifurcation Points in World History/Technological Change Globalization and Hegemonic Rivalry