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 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 11 The Evolutionary Trajectory of the World System toward an Age of Transition

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