Word: unipolar
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...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...
There are tow major forms of depression:unipolar and bipolar...
People suffering from unipolar depression mayexperience symptoms such as feelings of sadness,irritability or guilt for no apparent reason;changes in weight and sleep patterns; and aninability to concentrate or make decisions(please see graphic above...
...forward-looking man of bold action who can set the new goals, devise the new mission the U.S. needs in the post-cold war world. Bush says Clinton is "reckless"; Clinton says Bush is "rudderless and reactive." Bush is selling himself as the custodian of American hegemony in a unipolar world, Clinton as the advocate of multinational responsibility exercised through reshaped global institutions...
Charles Krauthammer agrees, and then some. He favors nothing less than a U.S.-led "universal dominion . . . a unipolar world whose center is a confederated West." While neither he nor any of the other contributors have much good to say about the U.N., Krauthammer welcomes an incipient "new supersovereignty" embodied by cooperative international mechanisms like the Group of Seven industrial democracies. That notion sends Buchanan into fulminations two chapters later...