Grand Strategies of Weak States and Great Powers

• Main Author: Kassab, Hanna Samir (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International relations.; International organization.; Security, International.; Diplomacy.; Politics and war.; International Relations Theory.; International Organization.; International Security Studies.; Foreign Policy.; Military and Defence Studies.
• Physical Description: 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.