Avoiding a New Bipolarity — What Can We Learn From the Recent Past?

... unprecedentedly high. Therefore, any political bipolarity, which would have an inevitable impact on the economic, financial, cultural, and humanitarian dimensions of international relations, is likely to have much higher costs for everyone than the Cold War ever had. Not to mention the massive relocation of material and human resources from addressing numerous global problems that are looming on the horizon. In sum, the trend towards a new bipolarity is troublesome and dangerous. Even in its modified and ‘modernized’ form, a bipolar arrangement is not likely to successfully handle the critical international questions of this century. If the world is split once again, this split ...