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Dunne, Kurkinames
& Smith:
hereInternational Relations Theories 4e
Chapter 3
Structural Realism
Learning outcomes
With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the
Soviet Union, many realists argue that unipolarity has
arrived
Such a world is likely to be more stable than either
bipolarity or multipolarity
Logically, there can be no war or security competition
among great powers; minor powers will not cause
any trouble for fear of offending the unipolar power
The dangers of a unipolar world is that the absence
of security competition encourages the great power
to withdraw from outer regions
Or a hegemon uses its overwhelming power to
engage in ideological engineering, causing instability