The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New, Volume 1

SpendingVersusRestoftheWorld. [12] The argument against the inviolability of national sovereignty, of course, has various rationales, notably failed states and so-called rogue states. Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-first Century (London: Atlantic Books, 2003), and вЂCivilise or Die’, Guardian, 23 October 2003; Michael Ignatieff, Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (London: Vintage, 2003). Ignatieff quite wrongly suggests (p. 21) that вЂwe are living through the collapse into disorder of many [my italics] of these former colonial states’ in Asia and Africa. [13] G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and World Politics (Cambridge: Polity, 2006), p. 12. [14] Joseph S. Nye Jr, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), p. x. [15] Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), Chapter 9. [16] Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (London: Fontana Press, 1988), for example pp. 472-80, 665-92. [17] Angus Maddison, The World Economy: Historical Statistics (Paris: OECD, 2003), p. 261. [18] Ibid., p. 258. [19] See Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, Thomas Reifer, John Rogers and Shoon Lio, вЂThe Trajectory of the United States in the World System: A Quantitative Reflection’, IROWS Working Paper No. 8, University of California ...»