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Power Problems • March 4, 2025 

# The Return of Bipolarity 

Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor at Dartmouth College, argues that China’s rise now means the world is back to a bipolar balance of power. She provides insight into how U.S. foreign policy should manage this new reality and discusses why polarity is important, how to measure the balance of power, how stable unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar systems are, the major points of conflict between the US and China, and what to do about Taiwan, among other topics.

**Show Notes:**

- Jennifer Lind, “[Back to Bipolarity: How China’s Rise Transformed the Balance of Power](https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/49/2/7/125214/Back-to-Bipolarity-How-China-s-Rise-Transformed),” *International Security* 2024; 49 (2): 7–55.

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##### Jennifer Lind 

Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

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##### John Glaser 

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