The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions.
How do technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers? Scholars have long observed that major technological breakthroughs disrupt economic power balances, yet they rarely investigate how this process occurs. Existing studies establish that a nation's success in adapting to revolu...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2024
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