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What is the Point of the Ikenberry-Acharya Debate?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

KEISUKE IIDA*
Affiliation:
Professor in the Graduate School for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyoiida@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Extract

Since the outbreak of the Great Recession triggered by the Lehman shock in 2008, writings on American decline have proliferated. World-renowned scholars and commentators have all pointed out that the American hegemony or empire is rapidly coming to an end, and that as a consequence the world is in greater turmoil than ever (for example, Zakaria, 2008; Friedman and Mandelbaum, 2011; Kupchan, 2012; Bremmer, 2012). Although there are differences among various works, most commentators predict a bleak prospect for the future.

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Mini-Special Issue Articles: Whither American World Order?
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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