International relations theory and the consequences of unipolarity
"John ikenberry, Michael Mastanduno, and William C. Wohlforth American primacy in the global distribution of capabilities is one of the most salient features of the contemporary international system. The end of the Cold War did not return the world to multipolarity. Instead the United States -...
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Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : unipolarity, state behavior, and systemic consequences
- 2. Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war
- 3. Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity : why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be
- 4. Alliances in a unipolar world
- 5. System maker and privilege taker : US power and the international political economy
- 6. Free hand abroad, divide and rule at home
- 7. The liberal sources of American unipolarity
- 8. Unipolarity : a structural perspective
- 9. Unipolarity and nuclear weapons
- 10. From unipolarity to multipolarity : transition in sight?
- 11. Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept