Power in the changing global order : the US, Russia and China / Martin A. Smith

By:

Smith, Martin A

Language: English Publication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press , 2012Description: vi, 230 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

978-0-7456-3472-2

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Contents:

Introduction: Power in the Changing Global Order. --1: Understanding Power.---2: Power Resources.--3: Hegemony, Unipolarity and the United States.--4: The Multipolar Moment? The US and the World in the 1990s.-- 5: A New Era? The George W. Bush administration's War on Terror.-- 6: Return to Multilateralism? -- 7: Russia as a Continuing or Reviving Great Power. -- 8: The Russian Multipolarity Debates. -- 9: China: Rising Power or Constrained State?-- 10: China, Anti Hegemonism and Harmony. -- Conclusions.

Abstract: Drawing on the work of leading international relations scholars, philosophers and sociologists, the analysis goes beyond simplistic views of power as material capability, focusing also on its neglected social dimensions. These are developed and explored through a detailed examination of the changing international role, status and capacities of the United States, Russia and China since the end of the Cold War. Far from achieving multipolarity, the book concludes that the contemporary world remains essentially unipolar; America having moved to correct the mistakes of George W. Bush's first term in office, while China and Russia have, in different ways, limited their own abilities to challenge American primacy.

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Drawing on the work of leading international relations scholars, philosophers and sociologists, the analysis goes beyond simplistic views of power as material capability, focusing also on its neglected social dimensions. These are developed and explored through a detailed examination of the changing international role, status and capacities of the United States, Russia and China since the end of the Cold War. Far from achieving multipolarity, the book concludes that the contemporary world remains essentially unipolar; America having moved to correct the mistakes of George W. Bush's first term in office, while China and Russia have, in different ways, limited their own abilities to challenge American primacy.