“The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.”

—  Robert Gilpin

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Nine, transformation Of The Global Economy, p. 351

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