1. P. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York, 1987).
2. But see also W. Rostow, ‘Beware of Historians Bearing False Analogies’, Foreign Affairs, 66 (1988), pp. 863–8;
3. H. Nau, ‘Why The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers was Wrong’, Review of International Studies, 27 (2001), pp. 579–92.
4. M. McCain, ‘Thinking South: Soviet Strategic Interests in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan’, in Soviet -American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, ed. H. Malik (New York, 1987), pp. 39–53;
5. Y.R. Kim, ‘The Soviet Union’s Shifting Policy towards East Asia: Its Major Determinants and Future Prospects’, in The Soviet Union and East Asia in the 1980s, ed. J.K. Park and J.M. Ha (Seoul, 1983), pp. 136–59;