George Modelski

George Modelski was professor of political science in the University of Washington. Modelski was a professor there from 1967 to 1995.

Before working at the University of Washington, Modelski was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University.

Modelski did work on long-term processes in global politics and economics, as well as the world urban macrodynamics and world system evolution. He was a neorealist. In 2012 he was awarded with the Bronze Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.

George Modelski devised a cyclical theory of world leadership. Each cycle has a duration of about 100 years and a new hegemonic power appears each time.

Portugal 1492–1580; in the Age of Discovery

The Netherlands 1580–1688; beginning with the Eighty Years' War, 1579-1588

United Kingdom (1) 1688–1792; beginning with the wars of Louis XIV

United Kingdom (2) 1792–1914; beginning with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars