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The Distribution of Identity and the Future of International Order: China’s Hegemonic Prospects

(Cambridge University Press) Existing theories predict that the rise of China will trigger a hegemonic transition and the current debate centers on whether or not the transition will be violent…

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“Reconstructing the Cold War” Wins Two Major Book Awards

Theodore Hopf has been awarded the APSA Jervis-Schroeder Book Award and the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize for his book, Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (Oxford University Press, 2012). The Robert…

Russia’s Place in the World: An Exit Option?

In 1992, Russia’s new leadership, led by Boris Yeltsin, explicitly committed to making Russia part of the Western hegemonic system. By the following year, and for the decade after, Russia…

Putin and Bush, Perfect Together: Yet Russia’s Alliance with Europe is Inevitable…Eventually

At the tactical level, the Putin-Bush alliance against terrorism is secure, but this alliance is based on two wasting assets: Bush’s presidency and a shared understanding of what constitutes the terrorist threat.…

Why the United States Should Cede its Russia Policy to Europe

The usual criticism of American policy toward Russia is that it is somehow wrong or misguided. I argue the problem is far more fundamental than that: the United States would…

The United States and its Unipolar Delusion: Implications for US-Russia Relations

Who would have predicted that 10 years after the disappearance of the Soviet Union, US defense spending would remain at levels characteristic of the Cold War? Or that the United…

Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (New Book)

Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 By Ted Hopf Oxford University Press Description (Amazon): General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are…

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