Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Niall Ferguson, Mao Zedong, John Mearsheimer
4 Oct 2016
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American decline has been predicted before: 1970s and 1980s. Sources of continued strength military power, resilient and adaptive society: us absorbs new skills, new ideas from around the world. Attractiveness of american international order challengers" want in: there are opportunities for countries to rise within it that keeps them from trying to ruin and de-stabilize it (thereby sustaining american power) Communist revolution led by mao zedong in 1949 one-party regime, centrally planned. It"s capitalistic, but it"s organized in a very different way: no democratic pandering [offers a chance to focus on ef ciency, don"t have to worry about the inef ciencies in democracy] Military: heightened spending, up to level of second-ranked powers not chasing usa. Soft power": confucius institutes, global media, international aid, debt relief and low-cost loans. Structural power: limited national interest, not global governance (china isn"t interested in reframing the institutions of global government, rather, focused inward)
