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The exercise of state power in global politics often involves a vexing paradox: strategies intend... more The exercise of state power in global politics often involves a vexing paradox: strategies intended to create or project power may end up reducing it. Under unipolarity, the lack of structural
constraints in the international system do as much to undermine hegemonic power as to magnify it. Through an examination of the structure and process of unipolar politics, the three works reviewed in this article investigate the unintended consequences of preponderant power, especially as it relates to American grand strategy. As such, the paradox of state power has direct implications for the durability and relative peacefulness of unipolar politics.
Chapter in Timothy Edmunds, Jamie Gaskarth and Robin Porter (eds.), 'British Foreign Policy and t... more Chapter in Timothy Edmunds, Jamie Gaskarth and Robin Porter (eds.), 'British Foreign Policy and the National Interest: Identity, Strategy and Security.' Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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This article presents a conceptual clarification of asymmetric hypotheses and a discussion of met... more This article presents a conceptual clarification of asymmetric hypotheses and a discussion of methodologies available to test them. Despite the existence of a litany of theories that posit asymmetric causation, most empirical studies fail to capture their core insight: boundaries separating zones of data from areas that lack data are substantively interesting. We discuss existing set-theoretic and large-N approaches to the study of asymmetric hypotheses, evaluate their relative merits, and give three examples of how asymmetric hypotheses can be studied with this suite of tools.
The exercise of state power in global politics often involves a vexing paradox: strategies intend... more The exercise of state power in global politics often involves a vexing paradox: strategies intended to create or project power may end up reducing it. Under unipolarity, the lack of structural
constraints in the international system do as much to undermine hegemonic power as to magnify it. Through an examination of the structure and process of unipolar politics, the three works reviewed in this article investigate the unintended consequences of preponderant power, especially as it relates to American grand strategy. As such, the paradox of state power has direct implications for the durability and relative peacefulness of unipolar politics.
Chapter in Timothy Edmunds, Jamie Gaskarth and Robin Porter (eds.), 'British Foreign Policy and t... more Chapter in Timothy Edmunds, Jamie Gaskarth and Robin Porter (eds.), 'British Foreign Policy and the National Interest: Identity, Strategy and Security.' Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
This article presents a conceptual clarification of asymmetric hypotheses and a discussion of met... more This article presents a conceptual clarification of asymmetric hypotheses and a discussion of methodologies available to test them. Despite the existence of a litany of theories that posit asymmetric causation, most empirical studies fail to capture their core insight: boundaries separating zones of data from areas that lack data are substantively interesting. We discuss existing set-theoretic and large-N approaches to the study of asymmetric hypotheses, evaluate their relative merits, and give three examples of how asymmetric hypotheses can be studied with this suite of tools.