Word: multipolarity
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...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...
...bipolar world of U.S.-Soviet domination collapsed. At the time, it was assumed that the new world would be multipolar, with the U.S., the European Union, Japan, Russia and a rising China sharing power and balancing one another...
...bipolar world of U.S.-Soviet domination collapsed. At the time, it was assumed that the new world would be multipolar, with the U.S., the European Union, Japan, Russia and a rising China sharing power and balancing one another...
...days of the cold war, it was better that the big powers fought proxy wars rather than engage each other. But in the multipolar era the danger of states' losing control of the insurgents they sponsor has soared. It is a reminder of Bismarck's forecast 20 years before the outbreak of World War I: "If there is another war in Europe, it will come out of some damn silly thing in the Balkans." The lesson: don't take Churchill's quip literally. Choose your friends and enemies with equal care, for today's easy way out can create tomorrow...
...everyone now recognizes, the world at the turn of the 21st century is not multipolar but unipolar. America bestrides the world like a colossus. Such hegemony is rare in history because coalitions of rival powers invariably rise to challenge and cut down the big guy. Two centuries ago, Russia, Prussia, Britain and Austria rallied together to defeat Napoleonic France's bid for European hegemony. The miracle of the '90s has been the dog that didn't bark: Where is the opposition, where are the coalitions of second-rank states rising to challenge Pax Americana...