On the Threshold of a Bipolar World? The Prospects of the Systemic Confrontation in the 21st Century
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Bogdanov A.N. On the Threshold of a Bipolar World? The Prospects of the Systemic Confrontation in the 21st Century. Vlast’ (The Authority). 2015. Vol. 23. No. 2. P. 5-11.
Abstract
The problem of the American leadership is one of the actual and widely discussed issues of the contemporary international relations theory. Many scholars point out that economic and military rise of several secondary states (China first of all) coupled with U.S. relative decline, conditioned by the global financial crisis, allow predicting the advance of new bipolarity. Meanwhile, considerable part of these predictions is based almost on the formal and statistic indicators, underestimating fundamental elaborations in the theory of international systems. In order to fill the gap, the author of this article analyzes features of an ideal bipolar international system, discovering key factors of its stability and dynamics. Resuming, the author formulates prognosis about the promises of the systemic confrontation and the return of the bipolar world in the beginning of 21st century.
Keywords:
bipolarity, international system, United States, China, confrontation
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Leksyutina YA. 2011. Kitajskij vektor vneshnej politiki B. Obamy: preemstvennost' i innovacii. – POLITEHKS: politicheskaya ehkspertiza. № 1. P. 222-236.
Clark I. 2004. Globalization and Fragmentation. International Relations in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press. 232 r.
El-Doufani M. 1992. Regional Revisionist Client States under Unipolarity. – Third World Quarterly. № 2. R. 255-265.
Fierke K. 2002. Links across the Abyss: the Language and Logic in International Relations. – International Studies Quarterly. № 3. R. 331-354.
Gilpin R. 1988. The Theory of Hegemonic War. – The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. № 4. P. 591-613.
Gilpin R. 1983. War and Change in World Politics. N.Y.: Cambridge University Press. 272 p.
Kaplan M. 1957. Balance of Power, Bipolarity and Other Models of International Systems. – American Political Science Review. № 3. R. 684-695.
Miller B. 1995. When Opponents Cooperate. Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics. Michigan: University of Michigan Press. 384 p.
Snyder G. 1984. The Security Dilemma in Alliance Politics. – World Politics. № 4.R. 461-495.
Waltz K. 2010. Theory of International Politics. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press.251 p.
Wohlforth W. 2009. Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War. – World Politics. № 1. R. 5-41.
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Bogdanov, A. N. (2015). On the Threshold of a Bipolar World? The Prospects of the Systemic Confrontation in the 21st Century. Vlast’ (The Authority), 23(2), 5-11. Retrieved from https://jour.fnisc.ru/index.php/vlast/article/view/1950
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