Historical Comparative Case Study of Emerging Hegemonic Behavior: Perspectives on China.

Will the future of hegemonic politics resemble the past? In the post-Cold war world, emergence of new actors will likely reshape hegemonic politics and potentially reconfigure the balance of power. As the world shifts from one era to another, the behavior of emerging actors like China will have far reaching implications. As the post-Cold war world's emerging hegemonic power, China presents the most challenging questions for scholars of international politics. This study draws from historical patterns detected from the behavior of two key hegemonic powers of the past fifty to a hundred yearsâ??Germany 1866-World War 11 and the United States 1898-end of the Cold warâ??in order to understand and to better predict China's behavior in the next fifty to a hundred years. Most scholars of hegemonic politics in the twenty-first century believe that it is essential to understand China's emergence and its implications for the international system. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]