POL 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Q., Isolationism, Emerging Power
19 Sep 2016
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United states has rarely been a status quo power but has often sought to mould the system in its own image. From their perspective, the dominant western states were insisting that many of the most important norms of the system ought to change, above all in ways that threatened greater interventionism. But there was a widespread sense that there was little alternative but to accommodate western power: there was widespread consensus that challenges to the us-led order would result from blowback" or backlashes" against us and. Western power, and would be focused around anti-hegemonic social movements or radical states: over the last decade, countries such as brazil, russia, india, China, south africa, the asean states, and mexico have experienced significant economic development. But they do not tell us enough about the potential pathways that might lead to the emergence of major power competition. Being a great power depends on recognition by others and on the cultivation of legitimacy.
