style="font-size:15px;"> Vladimir Putin. Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly – 2018 – March 1, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56957; William J. Broad and Ainara Tiefenthaler. Putin Flaunted Five Powerful Weapons. Are They a Threat? // New York Times. – 2018. – March 2; Wade Boese. U. S. Withdraws from ABM Treaty: Global Threat Muted // Arms Control Today. – 2002. – July – August.
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Jeffrey Lewis. Putin’s Doomsday Machine // Foreign Policy. – 2015. – November 12, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/12/putins-doomsday-machine-nuclear-weapon-us-russia.
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Putin. Broad and Tiefenthaler.
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Anton Trolanovski. Putin Claims Russia Is Developing Nuclear Arms Capable of Avoiding Missile Defenses // Washington Post. – 2018. – March 1; Geoff Brumfiel. Experts Aghast at Russian Claim of Nuclear-Powered Missile with Unlimited Range // National Public Radio. – 2018. – March 1.
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Charles Krauthammer. Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World. The 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture, AEI Annual Dinner, Washington, D.C. – 2004. – February 10.
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Charles Krauthammer. The Unipolar Moment // Foreign Affairs 70. – 1990/1991. – P. 11–12, 30, 32–33.
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Robin Wright. Powell Puts U. S. on Pedestal, Observers Say // Los Angeles Times. – 2001. – January 28.
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Maria Ryan. Neoconservatism and the New American Century. – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. P. 187.
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Более полно дискуссию о подъеме и упадке американской однополярности см.: Peter J. Kuznick. American Empire: Get Used To It: How Deeply Did the Neocon Fantasy Penetrate the Bush Administration? // Meena Bose and Paul Fritz, eds., The George W. Bush Presidency, Vol. III, Foreign Policy. – New York: Nova, 2016.
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Julie Ray. World’s Approval of U. S. Leadership Drops to New Low // Gallup News. – 2018. – January 18, https://news.gallup.com/poll/225761/world-approval-leadership-drops-new-low.aspx?ncid=%20newsltushpmgnews%20Politics%20011818.
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Javier Solana. The Dangers of Militarization // Project Syndicate. – 2018. – February 20, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-greatest-threat-to-international-security-by-javier-solana‐2018–02.
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Back Together and Better than Ever: Renewed Sino-Russian Relations // China-US Focus. – 2017. – September 22, https://www.chinausfocus.com/focus/china-this-week/2017–09–22.html; Nicole Gaouette. Russia, China Use UN Stage to Push Back on a US-Led World Order // CNN. – 2017. – September 21, https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/russia-china-us-unga-remarks/index.html.
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Sarah Kirchberger. Assessing China’s Naval Power: Technological Innovation, Economic Constraints, and Strategic Implications. – Springer: Berlin, 2015. – P. 263; Zbigniew Brzezinski. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. – New York: Basic, 1997.
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См.: Nick Turse. Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U. S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa. – Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015. – P. 121.
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Gideon Rachman. Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond. – New York: Other Press, 2016. – P. 33.
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Alfred W. McCoy. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U. S. Global Power. – Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. – P. 193.
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Wayne M. Morrison. China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States // Congressional Research Service. – 2018. – February 5, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33534.pdf.
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PWC. The Long View: How Will the Global Economic Order Change by 2015? – February 2017, https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/world‐2050/assets/pwc-world-in‐2050-summary-report-feb‐2017.pdf. Spectator Index прогнозировал, что вклад Китая в мировой экономический рост с 2017 по 2019 год составит 35 %, почти вдвое больше 18 % Соединенных Штатов и в пять раз больше вклада Индии. GDP Growth, 2017 // Spectator Index. – 2007. – July 21, https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/888458563424792576?lang=%20en.
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