Balance of Power by Amelia Faulkner5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() On the other hand, the current economic and political status of China places it in a pseudo-superpower position vis-à-vis the United States. On the one hand, a de facto unipolarity characterized by American hegemony has been around for much longer than the end of the Cold War. This leads to the second empirical problem with the statement. This logic of relative positionality of states in an anarchic system, as this essay will argue, has not fundamentally changed since the emergence of BOP theory. Multipolarity and bipolarity can and should be considered, themselves, as manifestations of the underlying logic of the international system, which the BOP theory also embodies. In responding to this statement, the essay will first discuss the logical fallacy inherent in its argument: though the balance of power theory (BOP) emerged concurrent to certain types of power configuration in world politics-multipolarity and bipolarity in this case-it does not follow that it was these types of configuration per se that gave rise to the theory itself. Balance of power theory, therefore, cannot provide guidance for the world we are in.” Today the world is characterized by unprecedented unipolarity. ![]() “Balance of power theory grew out of many centuries of multipolarity and a few decades of bipolarity. ![]()
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