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Bipolar structure of the world is more stable than the multipolar one. Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
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  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The proposition is Kenneth N. Waltz's. In "The Stability of a Bipolar World" (Daedalus, 1964) and Theory of International Politics (1979) he argued that the number of great powers shapes how often they fight, and that two is the safest number. The claim is live again as a US–China dyad forms inside a diplomatically crowded…

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