Georgia State University

• POLS 3400

• 2. How do A F K Organski’s Power-Transition theory and Modelski’s Long Cycle theory explain the incidence of war in the international system? (4 point) AFK Organski’s power-transition theory is, in short, a structural and dynamic approach when it comes to politics on the international scale. The power-transition theory perspective on war differs from the other two systemic-level theories due to the fact that it envisions politics as different level of states with different levels of cooperation and competition, with or against one another. Organski’s theory focused primarily on the causes of war and how states evolved over time, going from peripheral states to dominant powers. Because his theory focuses on the importance of a state’s status quo in the global world, the structure and rules that make up the international system help to establish the ‘how’ and ‘why’ factors of change that occur. In order to better understand