Word: multipolar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that in this multipolar world, which has already definitely replaced the world of all-embracing leaderships, we should not talk about leadership by single countries. We must create Latin American leaderships so that our voice can be heard and our position respected in the different large blocs of countries into which humanity has been divided. Not blocs in the old sense of alliances, but in the sense of large economic groups with an identity of interest...
What the activity adds up to, so far, is that many Asian leaders take seriously the prospect of a multipolar diplomacy emerging in the postwar Pacific. "Before, all of us were living under the umbrella of the great powers," Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam told TIME's Peter Simms, reflecting the uneasiness of many of his colleagues. "Thailand had America. We had Britain. Now they have taken away the umbrellas-and we are really beginning to feel the heat...
...before in America's longest and strangest war, the peace proved once again elusive. As the Paris negotiations dissolved in a fog of linguistic ambiguities and recriminations, Richard Nixon suddenly sent the bombers north again. All through the year, Nixon and Kissinger labored at a new global design, a multipolar world in which an equilibrium of power would ensure what Nixon called "a full generation of peace." But at year's end, the design remained dangerously flawed by the ugly war from which, once again, there seemed no early exit...
...support. Moscow has been actively courting Tokyo, and is pressing to begin work on a long-delayed peace treaty. Then there was China's decision to deal with Japan, after so many years of anti-Japanese vituperation. As one American diplomat in Tokyo puts it: "In the multipolar game, that's not a bad score...
...gesture of devoting four days of your precious time to them will convince the Japanese that you really regard them as the U.S.'s "most important ally in Asia." Your hosts would like instead some clear answers on how they fit into the Nixon-Kissinger scheme of a multipolar power balance. Although their feelings are ambivalent, they are mainly frightened by Nixon's much discussed concept of a world with five power centers-the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, Europe and Japan-each "balancing the other...