6/17/2023 0 Comments Future rising world updatesHowever, as predicted by President Eisenhower in his farewell address over 50 years ago, an increasing reliance upon military strength is rendering America the praetorian pole. It will continue as a leading centre of R&D, innovation, private enterprise, and post-secondary education the notion of broad decline is hotly contested. The USA, even with a slightly leaner (but still growing) defence budget, will for the foreseeable future remain the world’s leading military, or hard power. In terms of identifying the major heteropoles in the early years of the 21st century, the following thoughts come immediately to mind. New poles are forming, and old poles are evolving. That said, and although this is very much a new order in the making, we can begin to trace the contours and discern the content of heteropolarity, a condition which I believe will increasingly define international relations. Unlike in previous eras, the heterogeneous nature of today’s competing actors renders comparison difficult and measurement even more so. But this time the differences between them far outweigh the similarities. To be sure, and as was the case with the multipolar world dominated by the European Empires from the 15th to 19th centuries, there are once again many poles. The implications for security and diplomacy are profound. ![]() ![]() This metamorphosis may be attributed mainly to a series of colossal strategic misjudgements and the profusion of diverse sources of power and influence globally. ![]() In the previous post, I argued that the short-lived era of unipolar American hegemony has given way to a new international dispensation best characterized as heteropolar rather than multipolar.
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