POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Stephen Walt, National Power, Bandwagoning

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Balance of power theory says: join the weaker side, the idea being that you will make the weaker side more powerful. Wohlforth& brooks: unipolarity will last why don"t we see a balancing coalition in the u. s. U. s has the technique/technologies to transform economic wealth into military power. There prediction is that unipolarity will last --u. s. Albert o. hirshman: national power and the structure of foreign trade. He was interested in power trade and relationships. As trade starts to recover in the 1930s, trade becomes very important. Hirshman was interested in nazi germany- germany was interested in trade, where germany could approach states with their trade ideas, where nazi eventually have political influence by germany. Trade patterns not only driven by economic patterns, but political influence as well. The things you can observe at the system level are not only economic but political. could. Introduction to preferential systems, people will not simply trade with each other.

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