Title page; Prologue. Long Waves and Warfare: An Enduring Controversy; Contents; Kondratieff Waves Revisited: New Concepts on the Interpretation of Long-Term Fluctuations in Economic Growth; The Kondratieff's Waves and Cyclic Dynamics of the Economy and Wars: Theory and Prospects; Toward New Conceptual Models of the Kondratiev Phenomenon; Recurrent Instabilities in K-Wave Macrohistory; A Marxian Model of the U.S. Long Waves with Endogenous Growth of Labor Force; Economic Cycles Under Test: A Spectral Analysis
Summary
Considerable progress has been made in understanding the underlying mechanisms driving the long-wave behaviour of the world socioeconomic development. A controversial mechanism discussed is the close relationship between K-waves and the outbreak of majors wars
