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This chapter continues to illustrate the intersect of great and weak power grand strategies by submitting a new concept to the field of international relations: neoempire. Neoempire indicates the development of a new political unit that seeks to unite weak states under the banner of a great power. Led by a network of elites across involved states, neoempire signifies a shift from focus on states to consider new systemically creative actors that organize states into coherent economic and political blocs. These units organize production and trade into competing world-systems. World-systems theory provides an interesting lens to analyze state activity into this interesting new grouping.
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Kassab, H.S. (2018). Balance of World-Systems and Neoempire. In: Grand Strategies of Weak States and Great Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70404-3_3
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