As this new century progresses, America will not be able to
sustain the global preponderance it enjoys today. Over time, a
unipolar international system will give way to a world of multiple
centers of power, and a more diffuse concentration of power could
have adverse global consequences. Although scholars disagree about
whether bipolar or multipolar systems are more stable, most agree
that both are less stable than unipolar systems. Power in
Transition addresses the question of how to prepare for the waning
of American hegemony and the resultant geopolitical consequences.
Can the impending transition to multipolarity be managed
peacefully? Is systemic change possible without war? Under what
conditions and through what causal mechanisms can power transitions
occur peacefully? The authors identify past cases of peaceful
transition, seek to understand which variables enable major power
shifts to occur without war, and draw lessons on how the
international community can best manage the coming transition to
multipolarity. The analysis focuses on three core issues: how
contenders for primacy come to see one another as benign; how they
negotiate a mutually acceptable international order; and how they
legitimize that order. The authors also reflect on whether the
nature of systemic change is itself changing because of social
learning and underlying shifts in the character of the
international system. Case studies examined include the Concert of
Europe, Anglo-American rapprochement at the end of the nineteenth
century, and ASEAN. This volume helps fill a major gap in the
literature on peaceful systemic change. It also contributes to
efforts within the scholarly and policy communities to establish
the means by which peaceful management of coming change in the
international system may be achieved.
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