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The rise and fall of great powers. Part I Patterns of the past: thewave of great wars - wars and wealth, wars, wealth and foundationmyths, wars, values and global expansion, dawns of the new worldorders; the phrase of hegemony - on punitive pre-eminence, onremunerative pre-eminence, on normative pre-eminence, hegemony; thephrase of challenge - challenge, response and Indian summers, the costof pre-eminence I - the home front, the cost of pre-eminence II - theworld scene, conclusion; the phrase of disruptive competition - thechanging international order, increasing defence costs, domesticunrest, unravelling of old orders, decline and fall of great powers;the rise and fall of world orders - cyclical patterns of modern worldorders, secular trends in modern world history, cycles trends and thefuture of international relations. Part II Deja vu: wars to end allwars - domestic upheavals, foreign wars, war and material might,forging a new world order; pax Americana - on military pre-eminence, oneconomic pre-eminence, on normative pre-eminence, American Hegemony,Hegemony and Podsnappery; challenges, responses and nuclear weapons -world economic challenges, interstate challenges, normative challenges,conclusions challenges; the end of US Hegemony? -changes in the worldeconomy and US stagnation, interstate challenges and increasing defencecosts, moral fragmentation, American decline? And then there was one -the contemporary world-order cycle, secular trends or modern worldpolitics, the uncertain revival.