Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition - Couverture rigide

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Ding, Jeffrey

 
9780691260334: Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition
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ISBN 10 : 0691260338 ISBN 13 : 9780691260334
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2024

Synopsis

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers

When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation--the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers. Rather than focusing on which state first introduced major innovations, he investigates why some states were more successful than others at adapting and embracing new technologies at scale. Drawing on historical case studies of past industrial revolutions as well as statistical analysis, Ding develops a theory that emphasizes institutional adaptations oriented around diffusing technological advances throughout the entire economy.

Examining Britain's rise to preeminence in the First Industrial Revolution, America and Germany's overtaking of Britain in the Second Industrial Revolution, and Japan's challenge to America's technological dominance in the Third Industrial Revolution (also known as the "information revolution"), Ding illuminates the pathway by which these technological revolutions influenced the global distribution of power and explores the generalizability of his theory beyond the given set of great powers. His findings bear directly on current concerns about how emerging technologies such as AI could influence the US-China power balance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jeffrey Ding is assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. He also holds research affiliations with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Elliott School of International Affairs, and the Centre for the Governance of AI.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691260338
ISBN 13 
9780691260334
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
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Personne responsable
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9780691260341: Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition

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ISBN 10 :  0691260346 ISBN 13 :  9780691260341
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2024
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