Opposite but Compatible Nationalisms: A Neoclassical Realist Approach to the Future of US–China Relations
In: The Chinese journal of international politics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 23-48
ISSN: 1750-8924
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In: The Chinese journal of international politics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 23-48
ISSN: 1750-8924
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 285-297
ISSN: 1942-6720
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 17, Heft 3
ISSN: 2468-0958, 1075-2846
The dramatic rise of China and India among others has set the stage for a fundamental rethinking of world politics in an age of the waning dominance of US power as a force for remaking the world in its image. While Pax Americana is not yet teetering on the edge of collapse, the consensus opinion is that the relative decline of the US is probably irreversible and its unipolar moment will soon give way to something new. The article argues that the prediction of great-power conflict is overly pessimistic, whereas the expectation of a great-power concert is too hopeful. Adapted from the source document.
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 285-299
ISSN: 2468-0958, 1075-2846
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 145-164
ISSN: 0955-7571
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 59, Heft 2, S. 460-462
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: American political science review, Band 93, Heft 2, S. 497-499
ISSN: 1537-5943
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Just what exactly will follow the American century? This is the question Randall L. Schweller explores in his provocative assessment of international politics in the twenty-first century. Schweller considers the future of world politics, correlating our reliance on technology and our multitasking, distracted, disorganized lives with a fragmenting world order. He combines the Greek myth of the Golden Apple of Discord, which explains the start of the Trojan War, with a look at the second law of thermodynamics, or entropy. "In the coming age," Schweller writes, "disorder will reign supreme as the world succumbs to ... entropy, an irreversible process of disorganization that governs the direction of all physical changes taking place in the universe." Interweaving his theory of global disorder with issues on the world stage--coupled with a disquisition on board games and the cell phone app "Angry Birds"--Schweller's thesis yields astonishing insights. Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple will appeal to leaders of multinational corporations and government programs as well as instructors of undergraduate courses in international relations. --Provided by publisher.
In: Princeton studies in international history and politics
Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but woefully underexamined behavior in international politics. Underbalancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism's balance-of-power theory--that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both. Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, "Unanswered Threats" offers a theory of underbalancing based on four domestic-level variables--elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability--that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for underbalancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to underbalance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations
In: Princeton studies in international history and politics
Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but woefully underexamined behavior in international politics. Underbalancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism's balance-of-power theory--that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both. Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, "Unanswered Threats" offers a theory of underbalancing based on four domestic-level variables--elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability--that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for underbalancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to underbalance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations
In: The British journal of politics & international relations: BJPIR, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 63-70
ISSN: 1467-856X
In: Foreign affairs, Band 97, Heft 5, S. 133-143
ISSN: 0015-7120
World Affairs Online
In: The Chinese journal of international politics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 23-48
ISSN: 1750-8916
World Affairs Online