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  • From bipolarity to bipolarity [Elektronski vir] : international relations repeating again
    Gaiser, Laris ; Kovač, Igor, 1984-
    The end of the Cold War is one of the milestones in the history of international relations. The bipolar world order disappeared; yet, what has replaced it is up for discussion. Several different ... assumptions of the power structure of the post-Cold War international system have arisen; however, all of them underestimated some factors and overestimated some others. Moreover, there have only been a few attempts to bridge the gap and try to find a consensual narrative between these assumptions. We argue that the power structure of the post-Cold War international system has been quite volatile and has changed in the last two decades several times. The bipolarity of the Cold War was changed into multipolarity due to the lack of political will of the United States to act on the unipolar moment. In 2001, and with a new president in office, the structure changed again. This time the G. W. Bush administration was keen to play the role of a global governor. However, this unipolar moment only lasted until 2006, when the world gradually transformed into a uni-multipolar structure as a result of the relative decline of the US' economic power, and the lack of desired outcomes in the international affairs that were desired and strived for by the US. The economic and financial crisis of 2008 further accelerated the tendencies of reducing the relative power of the US in the international system. Therefore, after 2008 one can observe the world sliding into a non-polar structure. Due to the ungovernable size of the world and the rise of China, we argue that the power structure will become bipolar in the near future once more. Furthermore, we conclude by analysing what would such a structure mean for Euro-Mediterranean region.
    Vir: Journal of global policy and governance [Elektronski vir]. - ISSN 2194-7759 (Vol. 1, iss. 1, Dec. 2012, str. 49-63)
    Vrsta gradiva - e-članek
    Leto - 2012
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 459263

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    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40320-012-0004-1
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