A Transition Plan for Global Governance during the Birth Pains of the Multipolar World: The Atlantic-Pacific Sustainability Partnership (APSP) of Middle Powers
Journal: Asian Economic Papers
Year: 2026

Abstract The growth of China into an equal economic power to the United States has produced the bipolar disorder of paranoia about triggering the Thucydides Trap. As both superpowers envisaged coexistence in the nuclear age to take the form of a Yalta-type division of the world into spheres of influence, they are racing to expand their spheres of influence before the eventual negotiations to define the boundaries of these spheres and buffer zones. This rush to regional consolidation is dismantli