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Power and Nations: Fareed Zakaria

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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Is There a Bipolar World?

The defining feature of polarity is the two powers in a bipolar system. Hans Morgenthau figured out that we were entering a bipolar world, even though the Soviet Union was probably one third as large as the U.S. The challenge with China is I don't think you face the same kind of Soviet-like Cold War threat, but you face a country that is determined to rise and cheat in order to rise.

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