The Rise of China and the Future of the West

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Can the Liberal System Survive?G. John Ikenberrywww.csuchen.de: {8 v  u* z" P1 u7 Q: m# y0 c/ \
From Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008* M/ `' i3 L' ~" Y: y
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Summary:  China's rise will inevitably bring the United States' unipolar moment to an end. But that does not necessarily mean a violent power struggle or the overthrow of the Western system. The U.S.-led international order can remain dominant even while integrating a more powerful China -- but only if Washington sets about strengthening that liberal order now.
$ Y% U- n$ e6 q8 f* F1 tG. JOHN IKENBERRY is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars.www.csuchen.de0 g( d; Y# k: t5 H# U* D; g

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