The Return of the Great Powers
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- On Sale
- Jun 2, 2026
- Page Count
- 480 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781541605831
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From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the struggle for supremacy in Europe and the Americas, while in the East, it encompassed those vying for control over the successor states to Genghis Khan’s empire. Between 1989 and the year 2000, Great Power rivalry temporarily gave way to globalization, with liberal democracy on the march and national chauvinism seemingly in retreat. But events of the past decade have made one thing abundantly clear: The Great Powers are back.
In The Return of the Great Powers, renowned historian Brendan Simms offers a new history of the rise, fall, and return of the Great Powers in our time. He shows that over the past ten years or so, the major global actors have already resumed making decisions based on geopolitical rather than global economic considerations. Delivering a clear-eyed reckoning with today’s most pressing geopolitical issues, from the Ukraine war to the future of American dominance, The Return of the Great Powers insists that we can only understand the future of the Great Powers by looking to the history that forged them.
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“An exceedingly timely and very compelling book. Professor Brendan Simms provides a masterful chronicle of the evolution over the past two decades from a world of benign globalization, in which barriers to investment, capital flows, and trade were being reduced, to an era of renewed great power rivalries, in which all those barriers are being increased—from a world in which economics drove geopolitics to one in which geopolitics drives economics. The implications of this are enormous, and Simms describes all of it superbly.”General David Petraeus, former director of the CIA
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