Endgame of the Long Cold War

... war in the Gulf was brushed aside or ignored. The world order was no longer seen to be in a crisis of transition to multipolarity, because the unipolar moment had arrived. While western liberals thought that history had ended, the target states of the West, namely the Eurasian core states, thought that Imperialism had ended. This, I might add, was not a mistake that was quite so prevalent in the global South. The West sought to assert unipolarity in two different modes. The neoliberals strove to reassert unipolarity by coupling it with multilateralism—examples ...