Broken Cycle

Randall L. Schweller is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy, and a Social and Behavioral Sciences Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow at Ohio State University. He was the editor-in-chief of Security Studies from 2014 to 2021. Schweller is the author of Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium (2014); Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power (2008) and Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest (1998). He has also published many articles in leading journals, including World Politics, Foreign Affairs, The American Conservative, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, American Political Science Review, Global Governance, American Journal of Political Science, Review of International Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The National Interest, International Theory, and Security Studies.

• 1. The stalled cycle of world politics; 2. The long cycle of great-power rise and fall; 3. Revisionism and change within the long cycle; 4. The history of the long cycle; 5. An emerging world that defies historical analogies; 6. Four core features of contemporary world politics; 7. A meaningless but stable future.

'Randall Schweller's Broken Cycle is a masterwork of international relations theory that not only helps explain centuries of international history but sheds important light on the turbulence in contemporary international politics. Innovative, pointed, and controversial, this book will foster debate for many years to come.' Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and Pritzker Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies