Reflections on the First Ten Years of Sino-American Bipolarity

• In Event: China and the Emergence of Great Power Competition

Brief Overview

I test three arguments about the polarity of the international-political system: that the system became bipolar after China rose to great power status in 2014; that the system is still unipolar, dominated by the US; and that the system is multipolar.

Author

• Karen Ruth Adams, University of Montana