Word: multipolar
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...just pique. It is not just antipathy to George Bush. And it is not just France's traditional and reflexive policy of trying to rein in, cut down and domesticate the world's greatest superpower so that ultimately secondary powers like France could emerge as leaders of a multipolar world...
...just pique. It is not just antipathy to George Bush. And it is not just France's traditional and reflexive policy of trying to rein in, cut down and domesticate the world's greatest superpower so that ultimately secondary powers like France could emerge as leaders of a multipolar world...
...much of the world, the war on terrorism offers not just a free ride but a strategic bonus: American diminishment. France unabashedly declares that American dominance is intolerable and the world should by right be not unipolar but multipolar. Much of the rest of the world believes it but does not have France's nerve...
...kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques Chirac. As the host of this year's G-8, he invited leaders from the developing world to attend part of the summit, emphasizing his multipolar vision of the world. It was Chirac, two years ago at the violence-marred G-8 meeting in Genoa, who was among the most forceful instigators of the Global Fund to Fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. For months he has been saying that a key objective of the Evian summit...
...environment and installing a new Iraqi government trailing far behind. European suspicions about the U.S. are shared by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hosting E.U. leaders and Bush in St. Petersburg last weekend, Putin made nice with the Americans while urging the Europeans to pursue the dream of a multipolar world in an entente cordiale with Moscow. Europeans weren't buying that either. Putin was slapped down by the E.U. leaders, who demanded that he clean up Russia's human-rights record, especially in Chechnya, and ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change. In other words, as uncertain as they...