International Politics And State Strength

The authors consider both the nature of state strength and thechanging capabilities of the states most likely to construct globalarchitecture. Demonstrating that the traditional structures of global order--hegemony, bipolarity, and mutlipolarity -- are inconsistent with existing andproject patterns of state strength, they present a provocative alternative modelthat reflects the "creeping incrementalism" of multilateralinstitutions and the "institutionalised group hegemony" of the G-7states. In the final chapter, they explore the weaknesses of the presentarchitectural arrangements and discuss alternate scenarios.