GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Power Transition Theory
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Module 18: great power politics ii: hegemony, power transition theory and us-china. Counts the number of great powers in the international system. Likely the future, as countries like russia recover from the cold. War and china/india get wealthier and invest more into their militaries. More peaceful and stable than multipolarity- two powers don"t have to worry about realignments because everyone else is so far behind, they aren"t a threat. Most analysts say we are in a unipolar world now, but that it is fleeting. Most stable-one great power is so far out in front of anyone else gv they don"t have to worry about anything else. Used to understand the lack of challenges to american military power since 1991. Helps understand great power relations: it sets coalitional dynamics and risks associated with coalitional realignments. Realignments more likely to happen under multipolar system. Runup to ww2, when germany was annexing states, gb and.
