6 Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 99.
7 Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 97.
8 Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 129–31.
9 Waltz, Theory of International Politics, p. 162.
10 Luke McInerney, ‘Unipolarity in post-Cold War international politics’, Global Topics,
1/2002, pp. 1–11, p. 1; John Ikenberry, ‘Power and liberal order: America’s postwar
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p. 133; Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth, ‘American primacy in perspective’,
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11 Charles Krauthammer, ‘The unipolar moment’, Foreign Affairs,(70) 1, 1990/1, pp. 23–33;
William Wohlforth, ‘The stability of a unipolar world’, International Security,(24) 1, 2006,
pp. 5–41; David Wilkinson, ‘Unipolarity without hegemony’, International Studies Review,
(1) 2, 2002, pp. 141–72, to name a few.
12 Kenneth N. Waltz, ‘The continuity of international politics’, in Ken Booth and Tim
Dunne (eds) Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order(Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002), pp. 348–54, p. 350.
13 John Mearsheimer, ‘Conversations in International Relations: interview with John J.
Mearsheimer (Part I)’, International Relations, (20) 1, 2006, pp. 105–24; Samuel
Huntington, ‘The lonely superpower’, Foreign Affairs, (78) 2, 1999, pp. 35–49.
14 International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook, October 2008 (Washington, DC,
2008).
15 Worldbank, ‘Gross domestic product 2008’, http://siteresources.worldbank.org/
DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GDP.pdf(accessed 7 October 2009).
16 Therese Delpech, ‘Nuclear Weapons and the New World Order’, Survival,40 (4),
1998/9, pp. 57–76. Russia, we are told, is currently second militarily, see Jonathan Karl,
‘Rice: Russia’s military moves “a problem”’, 14 October 2007 http://abcnews.go.
com/WN/story?id=3728855(accessed 23 August 2008), compare also CIA Factbook,
Russia https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html
(accessed 22 November 2008).
17 Cornelia Beyer, Counterterrorism and International Power Relations: The EU and ASEAN in
Hegemonic Global Governance(London: IB Tauris, 2010), ch. 7.
18 Compare, for example, National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed
World(Washington, DC, 2008).
19 William Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy: Globalisation, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Tony Evans, U.S. Hegemony and the
Project of Universal Human Rights(New York: St Martins Press, 1996); Cynthia Weber,
Faking It: U.S. Hegemony in a ‘Post-Phallic’ Era(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999); Robert Wade, ‘U.S. Hegemony and the World Bank: the fight over people
and ideas’, Review of International Political Economy,(9) 2, 2002, pp. 215–93; Barry Posen,
‘Command of the commons: the military foundation of U.S. hegemony’, International
Security, (28) 1, 2003, pp. 5–46; Rosemary Foot, S. Neil MacFarlane and Michael
Mastanduno (eds) U.S. Hegemony and International Organisations(New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003); John Owen, ‘Why American hegemony is here to stay’,
Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, 1/2003, pp. 71–86; Simon Bromley, ‘Reflections on
empire, imperialism and United States hegemony’, Historical Materialism, (11) 3, 2003,
pp. 17–68, to name a few.
20 Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks(New York: Columbia University Press, 1992–2007),
Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977, ed.
Colin Gordon (Brighton: Harvester, 1980).
21 Beyer, Counterterrorism and International Power Relations.
22 For example, it cannot solely be explained via a shared threat posed by terrorism, which
for the European Union remains on a historically relatively low level; compare Beyer,
Counterterrorism and International Power Relations, ch. 4.
23 Robert Pape, ‘Soft balancing against the United States’, International Security, (30) 2, 2005,
pp. 7–45 and T.V. Paul, ‘Soft balancing in the Age of US Primacy’, International Security,
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