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Long cycles of global politics may be studied at the systemic or the nation-state level. The first point of view summarises the state of world politics, and was emphasised in Chapters 1 and 2. The second directs attention more particularly to the rise and decline of world powers and is utilised in the present chapter so as to depict as accurately as possible the process whereby, in the modern age, the world powers have succeeded each other in a fairly regular manner; in the next chapter, it helps us to understand the learning process.
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Modelski, G. (1987). Narrative. In: Long Cycles in World Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09151-5_5
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