Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: John Ikenberry, Economic Liberalism, Planned Economy
5 Apr 2016
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The cold war featured which sort of world order: bipolar. American decline has been predicted before in the 1970s and 1980s. Sources of coninued strength- military power, resilient and adapive society. Atraciveness of american internaional order- challenger"s want in. Communist revoluion led by mao zedong in 1949- one-party regime, centrally planned economy. Reforms since 1979 led to chinese model- limited poliical pluralism combined with economic liberalism: capitalist incenives- property, privaizaion, developmental state- subsidies, investments, soes, pursuit of export markets, managed foreign direct investment, no democraic pandering. Military: heightened spending, up to level of second-ranked powers-not chasing usa. Sot power": confucius insitutes, global media, internaional aid, debt relief, and low-cost gains. Structural power: limited- naional interest, not global governance. John mearsheimer: china cannot rise peacefully , i am not arguing that chinese behaviour alone will drive the security compeiion that lies ahead. The united states is also likely to behave in aggressive ways .
