The Unipolar World: An Unbalanced Future [Paperback]

This is the first book-length treatment of international politics in a unipolar world that adopts a structural realist perspective. It applies Waltz's microeconomic analogy to a market with a price leader. It concludes that unipolarity is sustainable as long as the unipole distributes rewards to other states.Introduction - Unbalanced Unipolarity Realism, Balancing, and Unipolarity State Behavior in a Unipolar System Unipolarity and Balancing in History Behavior of the Unipole: 1991-2004 Behavior of the Others: 1991-2004 Impact of Unipolarity on Stability and State Behavior Conclusion - An Unbalanced Future

'The Unipolar World is simplythe most comprehensive and powerfulstudy to date of international politics in the post-Cold War era. To understand the workings of thisunprecedented structural-systemic epoch, the authors advance a new strand ofrealismbased onthe macroeconomic theory of price leadership. The book is rich in theoreticalinsights, hypothesis generation and testing, and policy relevance and guidance. Practitioners and theoristsof international relationsshould carefullyread this book.'

- Randall Schweller, Professor of International Relations, The Ohio State University

MAJOR THOMAS S. MOWLE is an Associate Professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy, USA. He served in the Strategy, Plans, and Assessment Division, Headquarters Multinational Force-Iraq, Baghdad, from August to December 2004. He is the author of Allies at Odds: The United States and the European Union, Palgrave, 2004.

DAVID SACKO is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy, USA.