In his influential 1989 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, the historian Paul Kennedy concluded that, over the long run, a country’s wealth and productive power, relative to that of its contemporaries, is the essential determinant of its global status.
Dans son ouvrage influent de 1989 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, l'historien Paul Kennedy a conclu que, sur la longue durée, la richesse d'un pays et sa puissance productrice, relativement à celle de ses contemporains, est la cause déterminante essentielle de son statut mondial.