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"Unipolarity: The Shaky Foundation of a Fashionable Concept" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Unipolarity: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Hegemonic Order Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Hegemony" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Soft Balancing" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Bipolarism and Its End, From the Cold War to the Post-Cold War World" published on by Oxford University Press.

"The authoress continues the theoretical debate in her article by using the US hegemony between 2001 and 2008 as well as US leadership in the Global War on Terror as an example in order to debate a modern concept of hegemony, combining realist, constructivist and critical IR perspectives while distancing her concept from the simple realist notion of unipolarity. She finds that the US hegemony is based on material and ideological power and validates her thesis with a qualitative analysis of interviews conducted with scholars and practitioners from the EU und ASEAN and their evaluation of IS dominance." (author's abstract)

Contends that in the post-Cold War era, the likelihood of a planned nuclear war among the major powers has lessened while the threat of an inadvertent nuclear conflict still remains. Although major wars involving nuclear strikes are improbable, violent conflict is apt to develop both at the regional & international levels as the global system shifts from near- unipolarity to multipolarity. Systemic & structural shifts, effected by political, technological, & economic circumstances that alter the balance of power & may increase the possibility of nuclear attacks, may arise in the long term. These shifts are likely to appear in the politico-military policies of the hegemonic US, declining hegemon Russia, & the emerging power China. The Bush administration has asserted the US right to use nuclear weapons in a first strike against "rogue nations" or terrorist groups. Moreover, in the slim event that sub-state actors such as terrorists do acquire nuclear weapons, the logic of deterrence may be untenable. K. Coddon