POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arms Control, Anzus, The Foundations

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22 Jan 2018
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At the end of cold war the unipolar moment came about. The united states is the sole superpower, with greater national capabilities than any other state or combination of states. Us economy is equivalent to at least 50 other states e. g. gdp of california is higher than italy"s. The primists: the us continues to possesses preponderant capabilities, The declinists: the us faces relative decline to rising power, (cid:498)make america. Obama (cid:498)people of the world do not look to beijing or moscow-they call us(cid:499) Forth (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:891)(cid:891) (cid:498)unipolarity is a deeply embedded material condition of world. Common methodology: the distribution of capabilities - > state of behaviour politics that has the potential to last for many decades and interactions. Poor predictions of great power emergence: (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:890)(cid:882)"s germany and japan, (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:891)(cid:882)"s japan and china, 20(cid:882)(cid:882)"s brazil, russia, )ndia, and china, (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:882)"s china. Waltz 1979: a system is composed of a structure of interacting units.

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