Systemic Transitions

WILLIAM R. THOMPSON is Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, USA. He is the co-author of Strategic Rivalry: Space, Position and Conflict Escalation in World Politics (2007) and co-editor of Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change (2008).

• How Might We Know a Systemic Transition is Underway? Clues for the 21st Century; W.R.Thompson PART I: PAST Relative Decline: Why Does it Induce War or Sustain Peace?; S.Chan & B.Tessman State Type and Transitions in Hegemony: The Impact of Technologically Driven Geopolitical, Economic, and Politico-Military Boundary Problems; P.J.Hugill Structural Preludes to Systemic Transition Since 1494; W.R.Thompson Falling Down: An  Empirical Test of Dynamic Differentials Theory, 1500-1999; M.Lee PART II: PRESENT Searching for Changing Organizational Architecture During Global Transitons: Where is the Post-Cold War Order?; T.J.Volgy , K.A.Grant & E.Fausett Whether and How Global Leadership Transitions Will Result in War: Some Long-term Forecasts from the Steps-to-War Explanation; J.Vasquez Implications of Asia's Rise to Global Status; J.Kugler & R.Tammen Kantian Dynamics and Systemic Transitions: Can International Organizations Influence U.S.-China Conflict?; D.Rapkin  & W.R.Thompson Explorations of Connections Between Energy Use and Leadership Transitions; D.J.LePoire PART III: FUTURE The Evolutionary Trajectory of the World System Toward an Age of Transition; T.C.Devezas Cities in Transitions and Transformations: Exploring a Jacobsean Approach to Macro-Social Change; P.J.Taylor Scale Transitions and the Evolution of Global Governance Since the Bronze Age; C.Chase-Dunn , R.Niemeyer , A.Alvarez &  H.Inoui