Grand Strategies of Weak States and Great Powers

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kassab, Hanna Samir (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: International relations.; International organization.; Security, International.; Diplomacy.; Politics and war.; International Relations Theory.; International Organization.; International Security Studies.; Foreign Policy.; Military and Defence Studies.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XIII, 253 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319704043
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70404-3

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of states of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power, position determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions.  Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.