The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905

How do statesmen become aware of unfavorable shifts in relative power, and how do they seek to respond to them? These are puzzles of considerable importance to theorists of international relations. As national decline has become an increasingly prominent theme in American political debate, these questions have also taken on an immediate, pressing significance. is a penetrating study of a similar controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century.