Political Science Question

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Firist: Please write a three pages as a reaction memo about the reading. please no summery instead try to make critical analysis, see what the connection between the reading pick three or four reading or maybe more as you like but not less than 3

Second: come up with two questions from any reading and write them in the head of the paper. if you want you can answer one of the questions in the memo if not you do not have to just write the two question in the head of the paper then do the memo.

Please do not talk about USA 

please no using for AI or Grammarly or other stuff like that at all

the course is international security (you do not have to write that in the paper this is just for you to know)

The reading of the week is:

Balance of Power (II): Critics and Extension

Unipolarity

William C. Wohlforth, “The Stability of a Unipolar World,” IS 24:1 (1999), pp. 5-41.

Martha Finnemore, “Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be,” WP 61:1 (Jan. 2009), pp. 58- 85.

Nuno P. Monteiro. “Unrest assured: Why unipolarity is not peaceful.” International Security 36.3

(2011): 9-40.

Randall L. Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu. “After unipolarity: China’s visions of international order in

an era of  US decline.” International security 36.1 (2011): 41-72.

Soft Balancing/ Underbalancing/Bandwagoning/Hedging

T.V. Paul, “Soft Balancing in the Age of U.S. Primacy,” IS 30:1 (2005), pp. 46-71.

Keir Lieber and Gerard Alexander, “Waiting for Soft Balancing: Why the World is not Pushing Back,” IS 30:1 (summer 2005), pp. 109-139.

Randall L. Schweller, “Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing,”

IS 29:2 (fall 2004), pp. 159-201.

Randall L.Schweller,  “Bandwagoning for profit: Bringing the revisionist state back

in.” International Security (1994): 72-107.

Ciorciari, John D., and Jürgen Haacke. “Hedging in international relations: an

introduction.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 19.3 (2019): 367-374.