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A Post-Cold War World: The diffusion of power, expansion of transnational threats, and America’s growing rivalry with Russia and China

This paper will consider a contrast between the two following major themes. First, the post-Cold War world has been marked by a global context of expanding transnational threats demanding increased cooperation among nation-states. Second, the years since the end of the Cold War are characterized by a diffusion of power and, especially in the past few years, increased rivalry and tension between the United States and competing powers China and Russia.

Evaluate the tension between the cooperation required to deal effectively with transnational challenges and the competition among the great powers that sometimes impedes such cooperation.