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In Fragile Rise, Xu Qiyu offers a Chinese perspective on the course of German grand strategy in the decades before World War I. Xu shows how Germany's diplomatic blunders turned its growing power into a liability instead of an asset. Bismarck's successors provoked tension and conflict with the other European great powers. Germany's attempts to build a powerful navy alienated Britain. Fearing an assertive Germany, France and Russia formed an alliance, leaving the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire as Germany's only major ally. Xu's account demonstrates that better strategy and statesmanship could have made a differenceżfor Germany and Europe. His analysis offers important lessons for the leaders of China and other countries. Fragile Rise reminds us that the emergence of a new great power creates risks that can be managed only by adroit diplomats, including the leaders of the emerging power. In the twenty-first century, another great war may not be inevitable. Heeding the lessons of Fragile Rise could make it even less likely.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Fragile Rise
• Author: Qiyu Xu
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780262036054
• ISBN: 9780262036054
• ID: 14526971
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 678 g
• Dimensions: 167 × 243 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. December 2016

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