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We are all familiar with the popular and academic analyses of the ongoing and future ascent of China. Two of the associated questions are whether and when China might succeed the United States as the lead state in the world system. These are interesting questions, albeit ones that are not likely to be answered in the immediate future. An alternative focus examines instead periods of systemic transition - eras in which it is conceivable that a new leader might emerge at the expense of an older system leader. Framing the question this way presumes that a) future systemic transitions remain a possibility and b) transitions do not occur abruptly but may require several decades to set up structural situations in which a transition might take place. Neither of these assumptions are carved in stone and are open to question. It may be that future systemic transitions are unlikely. Or, it may be that they will not occur as they have in the past. All of these possibilities are assessed from a variety of different perspectives.
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About the authors
WILLIAM R. THOMPSON is Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, USA. He is the co-author of Strategic Rivalry: Space, Position and Conflict Escalation in World Politics (2007) and co-editor of Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change (2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systemic Transitions
Book Subtitle: Past, Present, and Future
Editors: William R. Thompson
Series Title: Evolutionary Processes in World Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230618381
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: William R. Thompson 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60846-7Published: 13 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37543-1Published: 14 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61838-1Published: 05 January 2009
Series ISSN: 2945-7653
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7661
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 294
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations