POLI 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Christopher Layne, Reserve Currency, Auslink

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Unipolar pessimists say that the unipolarity is just a transition state from bipolarity to multipolarity & would spur other great powers to come topple usa. > the usa will buck historical trends because the magnitude of american power precludes other states from balancing against it = their military and economic powers are too great for anyone else to touch them. > us hegemony is benevolent", there"s no reason why other states would want to balance against the us. Other states often have strong incentives to align b/c they get important security and economic benefits. Usa also has a soft power", meaning its ideologies & culture attracts others. The great recession is not the cause of american decline or shift in global power, it has just accelerated the causal forces between these trends and magnified their impact. The two drivers of american decline: the emergence of new great powers in world politics (esp.

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