Enjeux Internationaux

The United States and the Emerging Powers

  • By
  • Sherle R. Schwenninger,
  • New America Foundation
January 1, 2007

History is replete with examples of great power conflict that develops when the world’s dominant powers are not willing or able to accommodate the interests of rising powers into the international order of the day. The last time the world denied two major rising industrial powers, Germany and Japan, what they considered their rightful place in the sun the result was world war.

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