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Explain the concept of ‘Hegemonic stability’.

  • UPSC 2008
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Hegemonic stability theory holds that an open, rule-governed international order needs a single preponderant state able and willing to create and maintain it, and that the order frays when no such state exists or will act. Charles P. Kindleberger first argued it in The World in Depression, 1929–1939 (1973); Robert O. Keohane named the theory…

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