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International relations theory and the consequences of unipolarity /

"The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systema...

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Other Authors: Ikenberry, G. John (Editor), Mastanduno, Michael (Editor), Wohlforth, William Curti, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : unipolarity, state behavior, and systemic consequences / G. John Ikenberry, Michael Mastanduno and William C. Wohlforth
  • Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war / William C. Wohlforth
  • Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity : why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be / Martha Finnemore
  • Alliances in a unipolar world / Stephen M. Walt
  • System maker and privilege taker : US power and the international political economy / Michael Mastanduno
  • Free hand abroad, divide and rule at home / Jack Snyder, Robert Y. Shapiro and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
  • The liberal sources of American unipolarity / G. John Ikenberry
  • Unipolarity : a structural perspective / Robert Jervis
  • Unipolarity and nuclear weapons / Daniel Deudney
  • From unipolarity to multipolarity : transition in sight? / Barry R. Posen
  • Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept / Jeffrey W. Legro.