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Power shift: Asia, China and the decline of the West?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | On the eve of World War II, E.H. Carr observed that the fundamental purpose of a science of International Relations was less to speculate about the way in which the world ought to be run but rather to examine the world as it was by looking at the character of power, what forms power took, and the changes taking place in the balance of power. Such a realist approach-he insisted-would not only lead to better intellectual outcomes. It would also help policy makers answer that most crucial of all questions: could a change in the distribution of power brought about by the rise of revisionist states be contained within the existing international system or would it lead, as many feared it might at the time, to increased international conflict, possibly war itself?1 The answer to these questions was soon provided of course, though not so much by Carr but by Nazi Germany and imperial Japan as they embarked on their ultimately self-destructive courses of imperial expansion that destroyed Europe, devastated Asia, and by 1945 had led to the rise of two new powers in the international system: the United States and the Soviet Union. Book Name: Power Transition and International Order in Asia |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780203559376-10&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 63 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 48 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203559376-10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2013-09-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Power Transition and International Order in Asia International Relations Europe International Answer Imperial |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
