Non-Western societies respond to Western dominance by either bandwagoning or balancing.

Evidence

The West is and will remain for years to come the most powerful civilization. Yet its power relative to that of other civilizations is declining. As the West attempts to assert its values and to protect its interests, non-Western societies confront a choice. Some attempt to emulate the West and to join or to “bandwagon” with the West. Other Confucian and Islamic societies attempt to expand their own economic and military power to resist and to “balance” against the West. A central axis of post-Cold War world politics is thus the interaction of Western power and culture with the power and culture of non-Western civilizations. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 46

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the bandwagon-vs-balance dichotomy as the central axis of post-Cold War politics.