... mobilization of the U.S. leading to invasion of Afghanistan influenced the geopolitical debate in the post-9/11 period, the country’s early victories provided solid ground to the general belief that global order was best described by a stable U.S.-led unipolarity.
Unipolar hubris sustained
Back in 1999, William C. Wohlforth famously wrote in his
article
titled
The Stability of a Unipolar World
, “The system is unambiguously unipolar,” adding that “the current unipolarity is not only peaceful ...
The main political question is how long the key players will accept the situation where economic globalization is used in the political interests of the leading power and the main currency of international settlements is “weaponized.”
Summing up the results of 2018, one is tempted to lay emphasis on a number of major events and trends. However, that carries the risk of neglecting systemic issues that generate the diversity of individual phenomena. The understanding of these issues provides us with...
... Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO
Foreign opinion
Interviewee:
Ira Straus
, the founder and U.S. coordinator of the Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO.
Interviewer:
Maria Prosviryakova
, RIAC
Do we still live in an era of unipolarity or have we already shifted off to the multipolar system? Well, that all depends on what we define by the term “unipolarity”. Ira Straus, a Fulbright professor of political science and also the founder and U.S. coordinator of the ...
