POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Middle Power, Robert Gilpin, Hegemony
28 Jan 2018
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The international system (3): hegemonic war and systemic change. Robert gilpin (1988), the theory of hegemonic war, the journal of interdisciplinary. Further reading: steve chan (2004), exploring puzzles in power-transition theory: implications for. 103-41: robert gilpin (1981), war and change in world politics, cambridge university press. Polarity and war: what deters war: european great powers in 1914 > multipolar system. Germany, austria-hungary, italy formed another: european great power alliance commitments in the 1980s. United states, britain, france and other smaller countries formed one alliance. Soviet union and other smaller countries formed another alliance: the unipolar system in the 2000s > us is the hegemon. Multipolarity uncertainty: credibility of commitments: high under bipolarity, low under multipolarity, contradictory commitments: less likely under bipolarity, more likely under multipolarity. Intra-alliance military interdependence (i. e. move of one actor in the bloc will affect everyone, other countries in the bloc can be dragged into war): low under bipolarity, high under multipolarity.
