SHIFRINSON Joshua R Itzkowitz <br/><br/>
Rising titans, falling giants:  how great powers exploit power shifts /  
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson. 
 - Ithaca:  Cornell University Press,  2018 
 - ix, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> "Explores the strategies that rising powers adopt toward declining powers and asks why newly powerful states often choose not to take immediate advantage of a former power's weaknesses but rather support and manage that decline in a peaceable fashion" 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501725050 (hbk.):  USD45.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>GREAT POWERS--HISTORY--20TH CENTURY<br/>BALANCE OF POWERS--HISTORY--20TH CENTURY<br/>SOVEI UNION -- FOREIGN RELATIONS --UNITED STATES