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Rising Powers and Global Institutions     Email    Printer-Friendly
G. John Ikenberry, Thomas  Wright, The Century Foundation, 2/6/2008
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The economic surge of large Asian countries is propelling a fundamental shift in global power relationships. But while power transitions in the past have been marked by often violent struggles between rising and declining powers, the post-1945 international order is substantially different—more open, institutionalized, consensual, and rule-based—allowing a twenty-first-century power transition to be accomplished peacefully and incrementally. As countries such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil seek a greater voice in the international order, however, the institutions underpinning the international order will have to adapt to accommodate the new realities. In this report, G. John Ikenberry and Thomas Wright consider how the United States might most strategically move to adapt such institutions as the United Nations Security Council, the Bretton Woods institutions, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and the global trading order, as well as explore informal multilateral groupings, to engage the new powers. Continue reading here.

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