Re: The nuclear arms race in South Asia

Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:09:29 -0400 (EDT)
Daniel M Green (dgreen@UDel.Edu)

Does the India/Pakistan arms race mean that John Mearsheimer was right
about a return to multipolarity after the Cold War? There have been
several articles in the press lately about the complete eclipse of
America, our complete inability to persuade France, Russia, China to do
almost anything. Unipolarity lasted from 1990 to January 1998? I wonder
what shape hegemonic economic liberalism will take if true multilateralism
paralyzes one of its biggest proponents (the US)? Or has neoliberalism
already entrenched itself sufficiently to be immune to failed agency? It
will be very interesting if an economic nationalist/isolationist
Republican wins the 2000 presidential election. Some thoughts...now that
the semester's finally over.

Daniel Green
Dept. of Political Science
University of Delaware