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Wed 8.13.08| China's Rise; Japan's Surrender

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Faruk Tabak, ed., Allies as Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System Paradigm, 2007

Rethinking Nuclear Weapons

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Could China be the next world hegemon? Will it collaborate with other nations to break the US grip on the rules of the global economy? John Gulick considers whether China has the resources and endowments to take over as world leader. Also, Ward Wilson argues in an essay that Japan's decision to surrender in 1945 was not compelled by the bombing of Hiroshima.

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