Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-391) and index.
Contents
Great powers in the twentieth century : from dawn to dusk / Robert A. Pastor -- Great Britain : decline and recovery / Robert J. Lieber -- France : two obsessions for one century / Stanley Hoffmann -- Germany : the continuities from Frederick the Great to the Federal Republic / Josef Joffe -- Three Russias : decline, revolution, and reconstruction / Robert Legvold -- United States : divided by a revolutionary vision / Robert A. Pastor -- Japan : opportunism in the pursuit of power / Kenneth B. Pyle -- China : a tortuous path onto the world's stage / Michel Oksenberg -- Looking back and forward : the trajectories of the great powers / Robert A. Pastor.