Chapter 1: Introduction and Methodology
Chapter 2: Dehio’s Theory: The Wars for Hegemony in Europe and Rise
of the World Powers
Chapter 3: Hegemonic War and the Hellenic State System
Chapter 4: The Hellenistic State System and Roman Hegemony
Chapter 5: Hegemony and Culture: The Italian Renaissance State
System and the Roman Empire
Chapter 6: Dehio and German Historiography: Interpreting the German
Bid for Supremacy
Chapter 7: The European System and the Western Hemisphere: The
Dynamics of Hegemony and Plurality
Chapter 8: Dehio’s Theory and Contemporary American Grand
Strategy
Chapter 9: Hegemonic War, American Grand Strategy, and the
Contemporary Middle Eastern State System
Chapter 10: Hegemonic War, American Grand Strategy, and the
Contemporary East Asian State System
Conclusion: The Future of Global Order: Hegemonic Conflict or
Concert of Great Powers
Afterword: Hegemony, Nihilism, and Decline
Aaron M. Zack teaches political science at Baruch College, CUNY.
Without the Soviet Union, the Cold War’s bipolar formula no longer
can reliably serve to define and structure a global state system.
Aaron M. Zack is to be congratulated for the instinct that has led
him to turn for inspiration to the German historian, Ludwig Dehio.
Zack shows himself fully conscious of the richness and complexity
of Dehio’s writing. The broad sweep of Dehio’s historical knowledge
and the boldness of his speculation summon the imagination of
today’s theorists to rise to the challenges of a world without
stable hegemonies. We can hope that Zack’s insights are understood
and appreciated.
*David P. Calleo, Johns Hopkins University*
Aaron M. Zack’s impressive study takes us through a very long
historical journey of international politics via the lens of an
underappreciated yet provocative German thinker, Ludwig Dehio.
Through Dehio’s fascinating theories of balance of power and
hegemonic conflict, Zack brings to light important patterns in the
evolution of state systems. From his historical laboratory, Zack
moves on to tracing insights from these lessons of the past to
glean important insights into present day American foreign policy
and grand strategy. Like Dehio himself, Zack’s work occupies a very
impressive intersection between theory and history which deserves
both attention and great acclaim.
*Giulio Gallarotti, Wesleyan University*
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