W. Randolph Thompson

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PhD Political Science Stanford University
Masters International Relations Stanford University

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Identifying Rivals and Rivalries in World Politics (2001) (395)
Democracy and peace: putting the cart before the horse? (1996) (218)
The Regional Subsystem: A Conceptual Explication and a Propositional Inventory (1973) (211)
A Tale of Two Democratic Peace Critiques (1997) (190)
Leading sectors and world powers : the coevolution of global politics and economics (1996) (180)
War Making and State Making: Governmental Expenditures, Tax Revenues, and Global Wars (1985) (169)
On global war: Historical-structural approaches to world politics (1988) (156)
The "Coup Contagion" Hypothesis (1975) (131)
Seapower in Global Politics, 1494-1993 (1988) (130)
Balancing on Land and at Sea: Do States Ally against the Leading Global Power (2010) (117)
War and State Making (2021) (116)
Hegemonic Threats and Great-Power Balancing in Europe, 1495-1999 (2005) (101)
Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics (1996) (98)
Global Wars, Public Debts, and the Long Cycle (1983) (83)
Contested Territory, Strategic Rivalries, and Conflict Escalation (2006) (79)
Contending Approaches to World System Analysis (1983) (77)
Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change (2008) (74)
Strategic Rivalries, Protracted Conflict, and Crisis Escalation (2002) (73)
The Great Powers and Global Struggle, 1490-1990 (1995) (72)
Handbook of International Rivalries (2011) (69)
Long waves, technological innovation, and relative decline (1990) (68)
Globalization and Global History (2012) (68)
The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy. By Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 281p. $55.00 cloth, $23.50 paper. (2001) (66)
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Position, Space and Conflict Escalation (2008) (65)
Hot Spots or Hot Hands? Serial Crisis Behavior, Escalating Risks, and Rivalry (2002) (65)
Regime Vulnerability and the Military Coup (1975) (63)
Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics (2005) (63)
Defense Burdens, Capital Formation, and Economic Growth (1988) (59)
Power Transition, Challenge and the (Re)Emergence of China (2003) (58)
The Emergence of the Global Political Economy (2000) (57)
The Post-Coup Military Spending Question: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis (1982) (56)
A Streetcar Named Sarajevo: Catalysts, Multiple Causation Chains, and Rivalry Structures (2003) (54)
War and the Economic Growth of Major Powers (1985) (53)
War, Inflation, and the Kondratieff Long Wave (1982) (52)
How Rivalries End (2013) (52)
Principal Rivalries (1995) (51)
Explaining Rivalry Escalation to War: Space, Position, and Contiguity in the Major Power Subsystem (2000) (49)
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. By Giovanni Arrighi. New York: Verso, 1994. 400p. $21.95. (1995) (48)
Bipolarity and Bipolarization in the Cold War Era (1979) (47)
Organizational Cohesion and Military Coup Outcomes (1976) (46)
The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011) (45)
Great Power Rivalries (1999) (44)
The Economic Development-Democratization Relationship (2003) (43)
The Democratic Peace and a Sequential, Reciprocal, Causal Arrow Hypothesis (2004) (41)
Alliances, Arms Buildups and Recurrent Conflict: Testing a Steps-to-War Model (2005) (41)
Polarity, the Long Cycle, and Global Power Warfare (1986) (39)
The Long and the Short of Global Politics in the Twenty-first Century: An Evolutionary Approach (1999) (39)
Handbook of international rivalries, 1494-2010 (2012) (39)
Dehio, Long Cycles, and the Geohistorical Context of Structural Transition (1992) (37)
Puzzles of the Democratic Peace (2005) (34)
Complexity, Diminishing Marginal Returns, and Serial Mesopotamian Fragmentation (2004) (34)
Predatory Initiators and Changing Landscapes for Warfare (1999) (34)
The North–South Divide and International Studies: A Symposium (2007) (32)
Eurasian C-Wave Crises in the First Millennium B.C. (2005) (31)
Transition Scenarios: China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (30)
Uneven Economic Growth, Systemic Challenges, and Global Wars (1983) (30)
The Military Superiority Thesis and the Ascendancy of Western Eurasia in the World System (2005) (30)
World Power and the Strategic Trap of Territorial Commitments (1986) (29)
Rivalries and the Democratic Peace in the Major Power Subsystem (2001) (28)
Leading sectors, lead economies, and economic growth (2001) (28)
Reconsidering the Aggregate Relationship between Size, Economic Development, and Some Types of Foreign Policy Behavior (1980) (26)
Looking for Waves of Terrorism 1 (2009) (26)
The size of war, structural and geopolitical contexts, and theory building/testing∗ (1990) (25)
The forum: The decline of war (2013) (25)
Growth waves, systemic openness, and protectionism (1992) (24)
The Stochastic Process of Alliance Formation Behavior (1978) (24)
Limits to Globalization: North-South Divergence (2009) (23)
The consequences of war (1993) (22)
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (1997) (22)
Foreign Policy Makers, Personality Attributes, and InterviewsA Note on Reliability Problems (1980) (22)
Delineating Regional Subsystems: Visit Networks and the Middle Eastern Case (1981) (22)
Uneven Economic Growth and the World Economy’s North–South Stratification (2008) (21)
World Economic Growth, Systemic Leadership, and Southern Debt Crises (2004) (20)
Systemic Leadership, Evolutionary Processes, and International Relations Theory: The Unipolarity Question (2006) (20)
The Arab Sub-System and the Feudal Pattern of Interaction: 1965 (1970) (19)
World Economic Growth, Northern Antagonism, and North-south Conflict (2002) (19)
American Elections and the International Electoral-Economic Cycle: A Test of the Tufte Hypothesis (1983) (18)
Borders, Rivalry, Democracy, and Conflict in the European Region, 1816-1994 (2011) (17)
Corporate Coup-Maker Grievances And Types Of Regime Targets (1980) (17)
Sea Powers, Continental Powers, and Balancing Theory (2011) (17)
War, the Military Revolution(s) Controversy, and Army Expansion (1999) (17)
North and South in the world political economy (2008) (16)
War, Trade, and the Mediation of Systemic Leadership (2005) (16)
War and Systemic Capability Reconcentration (1988) (16)
Tariffs and Trade Fluctuations: Does Protectionism Matter as Much as We Think? (1998) (13)
Globalization began in 1571 (2012) (13)
Economic Innovation, Systemic Leadership, and Military Preparations for War (1999) (13)
Growth, Trade, and Systemic Leadership (2004) (12)
Technological Innovation, Capability Positional Shifts, and Systemic War (1991) (12)
Phases of the Business Cycle and the Outbreak of War (1982) (12)
Systemic Change and the Latin American Military Coup (1975) (11)
Asian Rivalries: Conflict Escalation And Limitations On Two Level Games (2012) (11)
Seapower and Global Politics (1988) (10)
Systemic Leadership and Growth Waves in the Long Run (1992) (10)
Stability in a Fragmenting World: Interstate Military Force, 1946-1988 (1998) (10)
Global Conflict Intensity and Great Power Summitry Behavior (1977) (9)
Globalization and North—South Inequality, 1870—2000 (2009) (9)
Political-economic tradeoffs and British relative decline (1992) (9)
Malign autocracies and major power warfare: Evil, tragedy, and international relations theory (2001) (9)
Testing a Cyclical Instability Theory in the Ancient Near East (2002) (8)
Rhythms in Politics and Economics (1985) (8)
Exploring the North–South Gap Longitudinally (2003) (8)
The Foreign Policy Attitudes of Indian Elites: Variance, Structure, and Common Denominators (2016) (8)
The Limits of Economic Globalization (2007) (8)
The Future of Seapower (1988) (7)
Status in World Politics: Status Conflict, Hierarchies, and Interpretation Dilemmas (2014) (7)
Relative Decline and the Overconsumption-Underinvestment Hypothesis (1991) (7)
Auditing, artificial intelligence and expert systems (1987) (7)
A Physical and Chemical Study of Titan: Atmosphere, Clouds, and Hazes. (1984) (7)
The comparative analysis of politics (1978) (7)
Systemic Theories of Conflict (2010) (7)
Evolutionary interpretations of world politics (2016) (6)
An Illusionary or Elusive Relationship? The Arab-Israel Conflict and Repression in the Middle East (2006) (6)
Trends in the Analysis of Interstate Rivalries (2015) (6)
The lead economy sequence in World politics (from Sung China to the United States): selected counterfactuals (2010) (6)
Long cycle critiques and deja vu all over again: A rejoinder to Houweling and Siccama (1994) (5)
Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy (2017) (5)
A Test of a Theory of Co-evolution in War: Lengthening the Western Eurasian Military Trajectory (2006) (5)
Power Concentration in World Politics (2020) (5)
Systemic interaction opportunities and war behavior (1980) (5)
Decline and Retrenchment: Peril or Promise? (2012) (5)
Center-periphery interaction patterns: the case of Arab visits, 1946–1975 (1981) (5)
Powderkegs, sparks and World War I (2007) (5)
Climate, Water, and Crises in the Southwest Asian Bronze Age (2006) (5)
The evolution of political-economic challenges in the active zone (1997) (4)
[Re]periphalization, [re]incorporation, frontiers and non-state societies (2012) (4)
Wars, Alliances, and Military Expenditures (1979) (4)
A Comparative Note on Two Alternative Indexes of Bipolarization (1980) (4)
On the origins, persistence and termination of spatial and positional rivalries in world politics: Elaborating a two-issue theory of conflict escalation (2019) (4)
Structural Change and Democratization in the Major Power Subsystem: Some Systemic Puzzles of the Democratic Peace (2003) (4)
Coping with Terrorism: Origins, Escalation, Counterstrategies, and Responses (2010) (4)
The timing of protectionism (1997) (4)
Structural Preludes to Systemic Transition since 1494 (2009) (4)
World Wars, Global Wars, and the Cool Hand Luke Syndrome: A Reply to Chase-Dunn and Sokolovsky (1983) (4)
Energy, K-waves, lead economies, and their interpretation/implications (2012) (4)
Distance, Size and Turmoil: North-South Mediterranean Interactions (2014) (3)
Some Systemic Roots of The Democratic Peace (2007) (3)
Global war and the foundations of US systemic leadership (2007) (3)
Observations on the North–South Divide (2009) (3)
The Monadic Democratic Puzzle and an ‘End of History' Partial Solution? (2003) (3)
War Making and the Building of State Capacity: Expanding the Bivariate Relationship (2017) (3)
Synthezing Secular, Demographic-Structural, Climate and Leadership Long Cycles: Moving Toward Explaining Domestic and World Politics in the Last Millennium (2010) (3)
Long Cycles in World Politics.@@@Seapower in Global Politics, 1494-1993. (1990) (3)
Anglo‐German rivalry and the 1939 failure of deterrence (1997) (3)
A Data Set Named Desire: A Reply to (2003) (3)
The 1920–1945 Shift in US Foreign Policy Orientation: Theory, Grand Strategies, and System Leader Ascents (2014) (2)
A Factor for Convergence, Divergence or Both? (2010) (2)
The Outbreak of the First World War: Strategic rivalries and complex causality in 1914 (2014) (2)
Hydrogeology of the Jocko Valley west-central Montana (1988) (2)
The Military and Politics in Modern Times: On Professionals, Praetorians, and Ordinary Soldiers Amos Perlmutter New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977, pp. xix, 335 (1979) (2)
Racing to a Renewable Transition (2018) (2)
K-WAVES, LEADERSHIP CYCLES, AND GLOBAL WAR : An orientation (2002) (2)
The Long Cycle of World Leadership (1988) (2)
Kantian Dynamics and Systemic Transitions: Can International Organizations Influence U.S.-China Conflict? (2009) (2)
Why Journal Editors Have Other and More Pressing Concerns (2012) (2)
Explaining Protectionism: 17 Perspectives and One Common Denominator (2001) (1)
Intermittent republics and democratic peace puzzles (1997) (1)
Arms races in international politics: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo, and David Stevenson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 302 pp., $100 (HB), ISBN 978-0198735267 (2016) (1)
The Wealthy World: The Growth and Implications of Global Prosperity (2000) (1)
Systematic Leadership and Trade Openness (2003) (1)
Population information in twentieth century census volumes: 1900–1940: By Suzanne Schulze Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1985, 274 pages, $74.50. ISBN 0-89774-164-1. LC 85-11412 (1986) (1)
Chapter Five: Middle East, North Africa/Maghreb, and Southwest Eurasian Rivalries (2011) (1)
Growth, trade, & systemic leadership (2004) (1)
Major Powers vs. Global Powers: A New Measure of Global Reach and Power Projection Capacity (2017) (1)
Part VI . ENERGY AND CLIMATE Energy , Kondratieff Waves , Lead Economies , and Their Evolutionary Implications (2016) (1)
K-Waves, Technological Clustering, and Some of Its Implications (2014) (1)
War, Peace, Survival: Global Politics and Conceptual Synthesis.Robert C. North (1992) (1)
Contiguity, space, and position in the major power subsystem (2008) (1)
Southern Democracy in the Long Run: A Systemic Analysis (2008) (1)
Introduction: How Might We Know That a Systemic Transition Is Underway? Clues for the Twenty-First Century (2009) (1)
PPS volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Defining and identifying strategic rivalries in world politics (2008) (0)
CHAPTER 1. The Problem of Rivalry De- escalation and Termination (2013) (0)
Chapter Three: European Nongreat Power and Soviet/Russian-United States Rivalries (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 5. The Israeli-Syrian Rivalry, 1948– 2000, and the Israeli- Palestinian Rivalry, 1980s and Early 1990s (2013) (0)
Trade, Growth, and Conflict (2020) (0)
Chapter Seven: Rivalries in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011) (0)
Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
Industrialization and Development: A Thrid World Perspective.@@@Contending Approaches to World System Analysis. (1985) (0)
Developing Perspective on Democratic Peace Phenomena (2005) (0)
Energy, Technology, and (Possibly) the Nature of the Next World Economy Upswing (2018) (0)
Spending, Death, and Taxes in the Long Run (2021) (0)
The Innovation of Public Debt (2021) (0)
Chapter One: Identifying and Categorizing Interstate Rivalries (2011) (0)
The Other Global Powers: France, Spain, Russia/the Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan (1988) (0)
Britain: The First Modern Industrial Economy (2018) (0)
Weak Conflict Constraints and Weak Conflict Inducements: The “More of the Same” and “Pax Americana II” Scenarios (2013) (0)
CHAPTER 4. The Egyptian- Israeli Rivalry, 1970– 1979 (2013) (0)
Strong Conflict Constraints and Weak Conflict Inducements: The “Liberal Peace” Scenario (2013) (0)
A Forward Reasoning Approach to the Possibility of a China-US Transition (2009) (0)
Conclusion:: Assessing Shocks and Rivalry Processes in the Middle East and North Afr ica (2020) (0)
India and its Great Power Aspirations (2017) (0)
U.S.-China Tensions Are Unlikely to Lead to War (2017) (0)
Systemic Leadership and Energy: The Argument (2018) (0)
Rules for Counting Warships, 1861–1993 (1988) (0)
CHAPTER 2. The Evolution of Expectations and Strategies (2013) (0)
Index to International Security: Volume 35 (Summer 2010Spring 2011) (2011) (0)
War Making and the State (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 3. The Egyptian- Israeli Rivalry, 1948– 1970 (2013) (0)
The Leadership Long Cycle Framework (2018) (0)
Another, Simpler Look: Was Wealth Really Determined in 8000 BCE, 1000 BCE, 0 CE, or Even 1500 CE? (2013) (0)
Arab and Israeli Elite Perceptions . By Heradstveit Daniel. (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget Publishers and New York: Humanities Press, 1974. Pp. 146. $9.50, paper.) (1977) (0)
Avoiding U.S.-China Competition Is Futile (2018) (0)
Historical Scripts, Leadership Sequencing, and Counterfactuals (2020) (0)
The World Powers: The Netherlands, Great Britain, and the United States (1988) (0)
Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall? (2020) (0)
Questions of Regional Primacy (2005) (0)
Lance E. Davis and Stanley L. Engerman. Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History since 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 453. $85.00 (2007) (0)
Global Wars and Global Power State Making (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 7. Other Eurasian Rivalries and Their Interdependence (2013) (0)
Do Democratic-Autocratic Rivalries Muddy the Monadic Waters? (2005) (0)
Chapter Six: Rivalries in Asia (2011) (0)
Coping with Terrorism (2010) (0)
Chapter Two: European Great Power Rivalries (2011) (0)
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Contested territory and conflict escalation (2008) (0)
The United States as Global Leader, Global Power, and Status-Consistent Power? (2011) (0)
Arms build-ups and alliances in the steps-to-war theory (2008) (0)
Systemic Transition Dynamics and Conflict Drivers in the China–United States Transition Context (2013) (0)
CHAPTER 6. The Indo- Pakistani Rivalry, 1947– 2010 (2013) (0)
Clusters of Technological Change in Pioneering Economies (2020) (0)
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Describing strategic rivalries (2008) (0)
Democratic Alliance Joining or Changing System Leader Containment Strategies (2005) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1996) (0)
Protracted conflict and crisis escalation (2008) (0)
Using the Scenarios in the Twenty-FirstCentury (2013) (0)
External Threat, Domestic Power Concentration, and Disputatious Foreign Policies (2005) (0)
Strong Conflict Constraints and Strong Conflict Inducements: The “Pax Sinica” Scenario (2013) (0)
Economic Rivalry and Global War (2020) (0)
The Non-global Powers (1988) (0)
Chapter Four: Rivalries in the Americas (2011) (0)
Systemic Leadership, Energy Considerations, and the Leadership Long-Cycle Perspective (2017) (0)
The Origins of Major War. Dale C. Copeland (2002) (0)
CHAPTER 8. The Outcome: Assessing the Rivalry De- escalation Theory (2013) (0)
Global Energy Transitions and the Future of Systemic Leadership (2013) (0)
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Inducements, facilitators, and suppressors (2008) (0)
Weak Conflict Constraints and Strong Conflict Inducements: The “Transition War” Scenario (2013) (0)
Path-Dependencies and Foreign Policy (2005) (0)
Societal Heterogeneity , Weak States and Internal Conflict : Evaluating One Avenue to Territorial Peace and Instability (2015) (0)
The United States: Emulating and Surpassing Britain (2018) (0)
The Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean. Edited by Thomas G. Weiss and James G. Blight. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1992. 182p. $30.00. (1993) (0)
Scenarios of Future United States–China Warfare: What Is Missing from This Picture? (2013) (0)
Do Rivalries Trump Regime Type (2005) (0)
Long-Wave Rhythms in Economic Development and Political Behavior . By Brian J. L. Berry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 241p. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. (1992) (0)
Long Cycle Theory and Concentrations/Deconcentration of Economic and Political-Military Resources (2012) (0)
Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change (2018) (0)
Power-Transition, Offensive-Realism, and Leadership Long-Cycle Perspectives on Structural Transitions (2013) (0)
Rome as the Pinnacle of the Western Ancient World (2018) (0)
The Future of Transitional Warfare (2017) (0)
Serial crisis behavior and escalating risks (2008) (0)
George Modelski In Memoriam (2015) (0)
The New Deal at the Grass Roots : Programs for the People in Otter Tail County , Minnesota (2007) (0)
Do the Gods of War Really Favor Democracies (2005) (0)
Malign Versus Benign Motivations (2020) (0)
Secular Cycles. By Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 362p. $35.00 cloth. (2011) (0)
China: The Incomplete Transition (2018) (0)
Seapower and its Measurement Rules (1988) (0)
Precipitants, Nonlinearities, and Structural Change (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
The Geopolitical-Economic Context (2021) (0)
Demography, Long Cycles, and Climate/Disease (2020) (0)
Introduction:: A Theory of Shock and Rivalry (2020) (0)
Thompson South Cleavage ? − The Limits of Economic Globalization : Still Another North (2007) (0)
Book Review: Armies, Soldiers, and Politics (1982) (0)
Accommodation and Violence (2021) (0)
War and the Economic Growth Question (2021) (0)
Revising the Framework: Energy and Eurasian History (2018) (0)
History and Selective Transformations of World Politics (2005) (0)
War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft. By Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 384p. $29.95.Classical Geopolitics: A New Analytical Model. By Phil Kelly. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 224p. $29.95. (2017) (0)
The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United Statesby Sven Steinmo (2011) (0)
Energy Leads and Transitions (2020) (0)
The World Powers: Was Portugal the First World Power? (1988) (0)
Space, Time, and Systemic Leadership (2020) (0)
The house famine and how to relieve it: seven papers and a bibliography (0)
Rules for Counting Warships, 1494–1860 (1988) (0)
Twenty-First-Century Transition Struggles (2013) (0)
Initiating and escalating positional and spatial rivalries (2008) (0)
Fracking, Warming, and Systemic Leadership (2018) (0)
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: An introduction to strategic rivalries (2008) (0)
Foreign Policy, the End of the Cold War, and the 1992 Election (2018) (0)
Long-Term Structural Change and Regime Type (2005) (0)
The Netherlands: Not Quite the First Modern Economy (2018) (0)
Constraints on Transition Conflict (2013) (0)
Comparing the Four Main Cases (2018) (0)
Racing to the Top (2018) (0)

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