Word: bipolarity
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...divided into two camps; the U.S. and the Soviet Union have kept not only each other in check but their allies as well. For Mearsheimer and other academic experts on war and peace, two is a lucky, even magic, number. As he puts it in social-sciencese, "a bipolar system has only one dyad across which war might break out." In other words, if nations are going to square off against one another, better they do so along a single, well-defined, well- fortified line that everyone knows not to cross. With a balance of power has come a balance...
With the rapid disintegration of Europe's bipolar division, a soon-to-be-reunited Germany is emerging as the linchpin of a new order in the region, symbolized by the European economic union slated...
Fear of the Germans, in abeyance for more than 40 years while the country was divided in a bipolar world, is on the rise again, triggered by the realization that Europe's destiny is no longer controlled by the rival superpowers -- and that unification is imminent. Last week in Bonn, representatives of West and East Germany and the four World War II Allies -- the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union -- sat down in the Foreign Ministry on the Rhine to begin the complicated business of consolidating, and securing, a single German state...
...this taught us to see the world in bipolar terms as two enormous forces -- one a defender of freedom, the other a source of nightmares. Europe became the point of friction between these two powers, and thus it turned into a single enormous arsenal divided into two parts. In this process, one half of the arsenal became part of that nightmarish power, while the other, the free part, bordering on the ocean and having no wish to be driven into it, was compelled, together with you, to build a complicated security system to which we probably owe the fact that...
...that is still not the most important thing. The main thing is, it seems to me, that these revolutionary changes will enable us to escape from the rather antiquated straitjacket of this bipolar view of the world and to enter at last into an era of multipolarity in which all of us, large and small, former slaves and former masters, will be able to create what your great President Lincoln called "the family...