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    The document discusses the changing global power dynamics in the 21st century. While the US remains a military superpower, its power has limitations as shown through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. China has seen huge economic growth over 20 years and is beginning to translate that into military power, commissioning its first aircraft carrier. It is uncertain how China will use its growing power within the international system.

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    The document discusses the changing global power dynamics in the 21st century. While the US remains a military superpower, its power has limitations as shown through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. China has seen huge economic growth over 20 years and is beginning to translate that into military power, commissioning its first aircraft carrier. It is uncertain how China will use its growing power within the international system.

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    The document discusses the changing global power dynamics in the 21st century. While the US remains a military superpower, its power has limitations as shown through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. China has seen huge economic growth over 20 years and is beginning to translate that into military power, commissioning its first aircraft carrier. It is uncertain how China will use its growing power within the international system.

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    Into the 21st century

    • The world since the 1990s has thrown up new


    challenges, but not necessarily the ones that
    Fukuyama and Huntington predicted
    • Both visions of the future have been dismissed
    as simplistic and irrelevant to the reality of the
    21st century
    • Instead, recent years have shown the limits of
    unipolarity and the beginnings of a shift towards
    nonpolarity or even a new bipolarity
    Unipolarity undermined
    • The United States remains the world’s only military
    superpower – a position that will not be challenged
    for many decades
    • The USA continues to maintain a huge international
    military commitment
    The limits of American power
    • Despite its overwhelming
    military power, the USA
    has seen its prestige
    damaged as a result of
    the wars in Iraq and
    Afghanistan
    • Military power has not
    proved sufficient to
    achieve a satisfactory
    political settlement
    China: the new superpower?
    • After 20 years of sustained
    economic growth, China has
    the ability to translate its
    considerable economic
    power into real military
    power
    • How will it use this power?
    China’s first aircraft carrier
    • In September 2012,
    China commissioned
    its first aircraft carrier,
    the Liaoning
    • The ship gives China
    the ability to project
    its power beyond the
    country’s borders
    The Liaoning
    Projecting power
    • China’s new ability to
    project its power into the
    surrounding seas has
    caused anxiety in the region
    • China claims a large area of
    the South and East China
    seas as its sovereign
    territory
    • Chinese claims conflict with
    those of its neighbours
    China and the wider international
    system
    • It is uncertain how a more powerful China will fit into
    the wider international system
    • Will China use its power to become a rival to the
    United States?
    • Will Chinese power see the emergence of a new
    Cold War?
    • Liberals believe that a more assertive China can be
    accommodated within the current international
    system
    • Realists expect that growing Chinese power will lead
    to confrontation with the United States

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