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Does power transition theory reflect the dynamics of US-China relations?

  • UPSC 2026
  • 15 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Power transition theory, set out by A. F. K. Organski in World Politics (1958) and formalised with Jacek Kugler in The War Ledger (1980), holds that great-power war is likeliest when a dissatisfied challenger nears parity with the dominant state that wrote the rules of a hierarchical order. US-China relations fit its structure closely, its…

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