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The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics - China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism (Hardcover)
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The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics - China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism (Hardcover)
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system
has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of
China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Oystein
Tunsjo shows that the international system is moving toward a
U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity-a system in
which no third power can challenge the top two. The Return of
Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to
argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between
China and the United States and the widening power gap between
China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that
will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century. Tunsjo
expands Kenneth N. Waltz's structural-realist theory to examine the
new bipolarity within the context of geopolitics, which he calls
"geostructural realism." He considers how a new bipolar system will
affect balancing and stability in U.S.-China relations, predicting
that the new bipolarity will not be as prone to arms races as the
previous era's; that the risk of limited war between the two
superpowers is likely to be higher in the coming bipolarity,
especially since the two powers are primarily rivals at sea rather
than on land; and that the superpowers are likely to be preoccupied
with rivalry and conflict in East Asia instead of globally. Tunsjo
presents a major challenge to how international relations
understands superpowers in the twenty-first century.
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