The Taming of Scarcity and the Problems of Plenty: Rethinking International Relations and American Grand Strategy in a New Era - Paperbackby Francis J. Gavin (Author) The underlying structure, incentives and costs shaping international relations, state behaviour and the nature of power are profoundly different today to how they were in the past, in ways that are scarcely recognised and widely misunderstood. For much of history, world politics was marked by profound scarcity in resources, information and security. A series of historical revolutions has largely tamed this scarcity in ways