Chapter 1 Introduction: How Might We Know That a Systemic Transition Is Underway? Clues for the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 2 Relative Decline: Why Does It Induce War or Sustain Peace?

Chapter 3 Transitions in Hegemony: A Theory Based on State Type and Technology

Chapter 4 Structural Preludes to Systemic Transition since 1494

Chapter 5 Falling Down: An Empirical Test of Dynamic Differentials Theory 1500–1999

Chapter 6 Searching for Changing Organizational Architecture during Global Transition: Where Is the Post—Cold War Order?

Chapter 7 Whether and How Global Leadership Transitions Will Result in War: Some Long-Term Predictions from the Steps-to-War Explanation

Chapter 8 Implications of Asia’s Rise to Global Status

Chapter 9 Kantian Dynamics and Systemic Transitions: Can International Organizations Influence U.S.-China Conflict?

Chapter 10 Exploration of Connections between Energy Use and Leadership Transitions

Chapter 12 Cities in Transitions and Transformations: Exploring a Jacobsean Approach to Macro-Social Change

Chapter 13 Scale Transitions and the Evolution of Global Governance since the Bronze Age