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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"unipolarity"”.
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The Unipolar Era: Why American Power Persists and China's Rise Is Limited
Is unipolarity sustainable? The dominant perspective among international relations scholars is that the United States is in decline relative to China, and that much of this decline is the result of globalization and the hegemonic burdens the United States bears to sustain globalization. According …
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Causes of domestic terrorism: 1970-2010
… encouraged terrorism compared to the unipolarity of the post-Cold War era, suggesting superpower rivalry manifested in more terrorist violence. Social tension effects varied depending on type. Linguistic fractionalization increased the incidence of violence. Paradoxically, ethnic …
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Enlarging the Union, Widening the Atlantic? : EU-US Relations and the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union.
… and clashing ambitions. American leaders pursue unipolarity, while their European counterparts try to facilitate the emergence of a multipolar world. Europe is increasingly seen by the US as a rival that needs to be contained. European integration makes the EU's voice louder in world affairs and …
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The Euro vs the Dollar in the Political Economy of Global Monetary Governance: perceptions of the financial elites in China, the GCC and Brazil
… monetary governance, away from dollar-unipolarity.
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The political effectiveness of non-state violence : paradox, polarity, and the pursuit of power
… was more politically effective during periods of unipolarity than during periods of multipolarity within each movement. The structuralist theory of non-state violence thus reveals and explains greater variation in the political effectiveness of non-state violence than previous scholarship.
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Developing and utilising a realist-constructivist analytical framework towards understanding the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy
… of limited transatlantic bandwagoning under unipolarity to ameliorate the ‘alliance dilemma’ – the dichotomous dangers of entrapment and abandonment by the senior partner in the alliance. However, the approaches of EU member states facing similar system-level threats and incentives to this …
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Partners in Peace and War: Theories of Alliance Formation and the Prospects of a Russia-China Alliance Explored
<p>This thesis explores the various, predominately realist-centric theories on why states form military alliances. Taking a theoretical overview of balance-of-power and balance-of-threat theories, the thesis looks at their application for two major powers that have a checkered history with each …