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Introduction
Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of states of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power, position determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions.
Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.
Keywords
World System Theory international system of anarchy grand strategies of weak states and great powers systemic vulnerabilities trading political support for aid systemic practice
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70404-3
- Copyright Information The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
- eBook Packages Political Science and International Studies
- Print ISBN 978-3-319-70403-6
- Online ISBN 978-3-319-70404-3
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