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Durability of a unipolar system: lessons from East Asian history / Wang, Yuan-kang

Wang, Yuan-kang	Journal Article
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Is unipolarity durable? IR scholars have offered contradictory answers, with primacists arguing for the longevity of US unipolarity and declinists suggesting the opposite. The literature suffers, however, from two shortcomings: (1) theories of unipolarity built on the sole case of the United States are difficult to generalize; and (2) they tend to focus on the defensive measures available to lesser states while downplaying the proactive means the unipole can adopt to prolong its dominance. To remedy these weaknesses, I propose a model of strategic interaction and apply it to two cases of unipolarity in East Asian history, Ming China (1368–1644) and Qing China (1644–1912). I argue that unipolar durability is an outcome of strategic interactions between the unipole’s proactive measures to sustain its asymmetric power advantage and the potential challenger’s ability to increase its power without drawing the unipole’s military containment. Unipolar durability is contingent, not preordained.

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United States ; Unipolar System ; East Asian History ; Durability

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Durability of Pierson’s theory about the durability of the welfare state / Campbell, Andrea Louise

Campbell, Andrea Louise	Article
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The main takeaway for many readers of Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State? concerns the durability of social welfare programs. Certainly for the period that Pierson analyzes, the conservative governments of Reagan and Thatcher largely failed to retrench welfare state spending. Both overall social spending and the split between universal and targeted programs remained fl at during the 1980s, despite the great hopes and eff orts of those administrations.

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Pierson’s Theory ; Durability ; Welfare State

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