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Balancing and other forms of resistanceAlliances and alignment; Use of international institutions; Systemic properties: how peaceful is unipolarity, and will it endure?; Unipolarity and great power conflict; The durability of a unipolar system; Unipolaritys limits; Conclusion; 2 Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war; Puzzles of power and war; Do great powers care about status?; How polarity affects status competition; Hypotheses; General patterns of evidence; Status competition and causal mechanisms; Status competition in multipolarity; Status competition under bipolarity.

Introduction: the purpose of alliances; the end of the Cold War and the changing nature of alliances -- Management-of-power -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- The United States-Japan alliance -- The United States-South Korea alliance -- The Australia-New Zealand-United States alliance

This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order.Unipolarity is usually described either as a 'brief moment' or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world politics. Two issues have been crucial since the end of the Cold War: How to theorize the distinctiveness and exceptional character of a unipolar international system? And what is it like to conduct state business in a unipolar world? Until now, a comprehensive model for.

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; One: Crisis of the Old Order; Part One: Theoretical Foundations; Two: Power and the Varieties of Order; Three: Power and Strategies of Rule; Four: Unipolarity and Its Consequences; Part Two: Historical Origins and Trajectories of Change; Five: The Rise of the American System; Six: The Great Transformation and the Failure of Illiberal Hegemony; Seven: Dilemmas and Pathways of Liberal International Order; Eight: Conclusion: The Durability of Liberal International Order; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

What has standing alone atop the international hierarchy done to the United States? Psychology of a Superpower examines how unipolarity affects the way U.S. leaders conceive of their role. Combining security, strategy, and psychology, Christopher J. Fettweis investigates how the idea of being number one affects America's foreign-policy elite

Introduction -- Understanding transformational change and democracy promotion -- The Rise: The emergence of democracy in policy-making -- The Fall: An end to unipolarity and the rejection of democracy promotion -- Conclusion: The end of democracy promotion is nigh.

Confucian strategic culture and the puzzle -- Culture and strategic choice -- The northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) -- The southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) -- The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) -- The Ming tribute system -- Chinese power politics in the age of U.S. unipolarity

Unipolarity and its implications for Asian/Eurasian security -- Strategic partnerships in Asia and Eurasia -- The Sino-Russian partnership -- The Indo-Russian partnership -- The Sino-Indian partnership -- Geopolitics and geoeconomics : will competition derail cooperation? -- Prospects for multilateralism in Asia/Eurasia -- What does the future hold?.