Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on the contributors
- Notes on the editors
- 1 Introduction: unipolarity, state behavior, and systemic consequences
- 2 Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war
- 3 Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity: why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be
- 4 Alliances in a unipolar world
- 5 System maker and privilege taker: US power and the international political economy
- 6 Free hand abroad, divide and rule at home
- 7 The liberal sources of American unipolarity
- 8 Unipolarity: a structural perspective
- 9 Unipolarity and nuclear weapons
- 10 From unipolarity to multipolarity: transition in sight?
- 11 Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on the contributors
- Notes on the editors
- 1 Introduction: unipolarity, state behavior, and systemic consequences
- 2 Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war
- 3 Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity: why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be
- 4 Alliances in a unipolar world
- 5 System maker and privilege taker: US power and the international political economy
- 6 Free hand abroad, divide and rule at home
- 7 The liberal sources of American unipolarity
- 8 Unipolarity: a structural perspective
- 9 Unipolarity and nuclear weapons
- 10 From unipolarity to multipolarity: transition in sight?
- 11 Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011