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Book Review

Comparative/World

Walter Thompson, editor. Great Power Rivalries. (Studies in International Relations.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 414. $45.00.

Ever since the London Declaration of July 6, 1990, proclaimed an end to the Cold War, scholarly interest in the complexity of rivalries between the Great Powers has increased significantly. The end of bipolarity suggested the importance of multipolarity, particularly in a world with one superpower and a disturbing supporting cast of global, regional, and local actors and agents. This volume testifies to the attractiveness of the analysis of Great Power rivalries, stemming as it does from a conference on the subject held in 1995 at Indiana University. Papers presented by thirteen participants are included, with an introductory essay by Walter Thompson, editor of the volume and himself one of the contributors. 1

The cast of writers is diverse in terms of age, experience, and profession. Seven political scientists, five historians, and Suzanne Frederick, a policy analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology, are included. Distinguished senior scholars like Jeremy Black, Jack Levy, and Paul W. Schroeder are complemented by graduate students like David S. Kelly and assistant professors like Paul Hensel. Similarly, the topics selected cover a broad range both geographically and chronologically. Early modern competitions between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, France and Spain, and England and Holland are balanced by treatments of modern rivalries between Britain and Germany, the United States and Japan, and, of course, the United States and the Soviet Union. The result is a diverse and engaging array that offers something for nearly everyone concerned with the subject. . . .

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