What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)

"Porter's [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for."—Peter Gay, Times Literary Supplement From the author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award) comes a "sumptuous and spicy volume" ( Washington Post Book World ) that highlights Britain's long-underestimated and pivotal role in disseminating the ideas and ...(展开全部)

"Porter's [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for."—Peter Gay, Times Literary Supplement From the author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award) comes a "sumptuous and spicy volume" ( Washington Post Book World ) that highlights Britain's long-underestimated and pivotal role in disseminating the ideas and ...(展开全部)

A bold, eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia Weaving together history, diplomacy, and vivid personal narratives from his overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostok to Beijing, Bruno Maçães provides a fascinating portrait of the shifting borderlands between Europe and Asia, tracking the economic integration of the two continen...(展开全部)

[葡]布鲁诺·玛萨艾斯(Bruno Maçães)，目前是伦敦Flint Global 的高级顾问、中国人民大学高级研究员、华盛顿哈德逊研究所高级研究员。2013~2015 年担任葡萄牙外交欧洲事务部部长。毕业于哈佛大学，获得政治学博士学位，之前在华盛顿的美国企业研究院和布鲁塞尔的卡耐基研究院担任研究员。 刘晓果，东北师范大学翻译专业硕士，现为社会科学文献出版社 Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies（ESCI 来源期刊）英文期刊负责人。

[葡]布鲁诺·玛萨艾斯(Bruno Maçães)，目前是伦敦Flint Global 的高级顾问、中国人民大学高级研究员、华盛顿哈德逊研究所高级研究员。2013~2015 年担任葡萄牙外交欧洲事务部部长。毕业于哈佛大学，获得政治学博士学位，之前在华盛顿的美国企业研究院和布鲁塞尔的卡耐基研究院担任研究员。 刘晓果，东北师范大学翻译专业硕士，现为社会科学文献出版社 Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies（ESCI 来源期刊）英文期刊负责人。

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)