The fall of great powers : peace, stability, and legitimacy

Introductory historical commentary / W.H. McNeill -- Great powers and empires : historical mechanisms of their making and breaking / I. Geiss -- The fall of Great Britain : peace, stability, and legitimacy / Z. Steiner -- The fall of Austria-Hungary : peace, stability, and legitimacy / I. Deak -- The fall of Germany : peace, stability, and legitimacy / W.J. Mommsen -- The fall of empires -Russia and the Soviet Union / A. Nove -- The fall of the Soviet Union : peace, stability and legitimacy / A.O. Chubarian -- The collapse of the Soviet Union : leadership, elites, and legitimacy / V.M. Zubok -- The end of the Cold War and the future of American power / A.L. Friedberg -- The "fall" of the United States : peace, stability, and legitimacy / S. Strange -- Peace, stability, and legitimacy in Africa : the factor of colonialism and neocolonialism / J.F. Ade Ajayi --Empires and anti-empires : Asia in world politics / W. Gungwu -- The superpowers in the Middle East : Cold War and Post-Cold-War policies / C.R. Saivet