... the level of regions as constituent parts of states. “New federalism,” “new regionalism,” and other similar phenomena (which have become a natural and logical response to the challenge of a large-scale global, provoked (but by no means caused) COVID-19) necessarily require a significant expansion of the rights and powers of public authorities at the regional level (which are designed to “solve issues in specific territories”) — but at the same time raise the question of the price of providing ...
... narrative has also rejected the idea that the world has been moving in the direction of a new bipolarity, insisting on a gradual transformation of the unipolar, U.S.-centered international system of early XXI century to a multipolar (or polycentric) world order.
Andrey Kortunov:
Between Polycentrism and Bipolarity
In spite of this, there are more and more discussions on the bipolarization of China and the United States in academic circles both in China and in Russia. Especially after the COVID-19 outbreak, China-U.S. relations have deteriorated sharply, conflicts between China and the U.S. have intensified, and bipolarization has become a hot issue in academic and political discussions of international politics. More and more often, observers ...
The once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe of COVID-19 has shown that the trend of bipolarization between China and the U.S. is likely to continue and deepen in the post-pandemic period
For most of the time after the end of the cold war, the contradiction between a unipolar and multipolar world ...
... low effectiveness of multilateralism were true, the United States under Donald Trump should have been able to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic far better than the European Union. In reality, however, as of early August, the United States had over three ... ... “death of multilateralism” as a result of the systemic crisis of 2020 appear greatly exaggerated, to say the least. Alternative world orders, such as “atomization” of global politics and the international system collapsing into a scattering of nation-states,...
On June 10, 2020, the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) held an online roundtable on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the future world order
On June 10, 2020, the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) held an online roundtable on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the future world order.
Reports were made by Natalie Tocci, Director of the Italian International Affairs ...
... can work together to manage the risk of armed conflict and create a more inclusive system of global governance.
The Future of World Order
Discussion Paper Series on Managing Global Disorder No. 1
, June 2020, published by the Council on Foreign Relations ... ... periphery.
Turning back or even significantly slowing down globalization in the foreseeable future is not possible. Even the COVID-19 pandemic, which has imposed rigid restrictions on some specific avenues of globalization, including international travel,...
... are still enticed by discussions of a new bipolarity, and there are many reasons why. Let us outline a few of them. First, the world order that existed during the Cold War was relatively simple. Second, people are motivated by anti-Chinese sentiments. That ... ... against China. This was laid bare for all to see in the tragicomic story involving the EU report on disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. The handling of the coronavirus is leaving more and more people in Europe with no illusions about the United ...
