Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers

David M. Over the Horizon demonstrates that cooperation between declining and rising powers is more common than we might think, although declining states may later regret having given upstarts time to mature into true threats.. This problem lends considerable urgency to the lessons to be learned from Over the Horizon. To test his novel theory, Edelstein uses lessons learned from history's great powers: late nineteenth-century Germany, the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, interwar Germany, and the Soviet Union at the origins of the Cold War. How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace compet

David M. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Security Studies, and Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Occupational Hazards, also from Cornell.. Edelstein is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Edmund A

He is the author of Occupational Hazards, also from Cornell.. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Security Studies, and Department of Government at Georgetown University. About the AuthorDavid M. Edelstein is Associate Professor of International Affairs in the Edmund A