Abstract
Although this study ends in 1968, it is important to point out that the notion of a tripolar great power configuration did not cease to have relevance for the more recent years. In the last years of the 1960s a major shift in the international system took place when as a result of several key issues, the US replaced the USSR as the pivot in the triad, thereby fundamentally altering the great powers triangle’s configuration for the first time since its emergence in the early 1960s. However, this new phase must be left for another study.
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Current aspects of the great power triangle as seen from the perspective of the three powers are dealt with in the following publications. Gerald Segal (ed.), The China Factor (London: Croom Helm, 1981). Gerald Segal, ‘Card Playing in International Relations: The United States and the Great Power Triangle’. Millennium, vol.8, no.3. (Winter 1979–80). ‘China’s Strategic Posture and the Great Power Triangle’ Pacific Affairs, vol.53, no.4 (Winter 1980–81). ‘China and the Great Power Triangle’, The China Quarterly, no.83 (Sept.–Dec. 1980).
On the role of factional politics in the US see Banning Garrett, The China Card and Its Origins (Berkeley, California, Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1981) and ‘China Policy and the Strategic Triangle’ in Kenneth Oye et al. eds., Eagle Entangled: US Foreign Policy in a Complex World (New York: Longman, 1979).
On US policy in this period see Henry Kissinger, The White House Years. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson/Michael Joseph, 1979).
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Segal, G. (1982). Summary and Conclusions. In: The Great Power Triangle. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06059-7_6
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