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Can the Liberal System Survive?G. John Ikenberry% \% u1 j T. x( y3 f e( G
From Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008# O+ a: Y+ X$ ^3 l! W
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Summary: China's rise will inevitably bring the United States' unipolar moment to an end. But that does not necessarily mean a violent power struggle or the overthrow of the Western system. The U.S.-led international order can remain dominant even while integrating a more powerful China -- but only if Washington sets about strengthening that liberal order now. - y( u6 Q1 L3 B/ z: D& IG. JOHN IKENBERRY is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars.. f" _! l* b/ L2 G) M" F. V% m
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