On this bottom board, power is widely dispersed, and it makes no sense to speak of unipolarity, multipolarity, or hegemony. |
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Initially, at least, the preponderant view was that any alternative to bipolarity was likely to be some variation on multipolarity, with all of its depressing implications. |
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China, India and Russia meet from time to time to re-swear allegiance to multipolarity. |
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The previous planning systems tried to develop this multipolarity by promoting other secondary cities. |
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In the near future, greater multipolarity will not mean a return of military confrontation. |
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But in any case, let us, as a European Union, embrace the Russian desire to secure multipolarity in the spirit in which it is intended. |
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As from the end of the cold war, it ceased to think primarily in terms of multipolarity. |
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By negotiating as a group with the EU, Mercosul reinforces the multipolarity of the international system. |
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Will the United States have the wisdom to choose multipolarity for running the world? |
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The alternative to unipolarity may not be multipolarity at all. |
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Some people see the end of the bipolar world leaving multipolarity in its stead, but that is not a very good description of a world in which one country, the United States, is so much more powerful than all the others. |
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At the 2005 World Summit, the President of Belarus declared that the world could only be protected from terrorism on the basis of the principles of multipolarity, diversity and freedom of choice. |
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The EUISS will increasingly have to contribute to improving our understanding of current global realities, in a world that is reverting to multipolarity. |
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The shift towards true multipolarity is irreversible. |
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Conscious that many US allies also have doubts about the United States' growing unilateralism, Russia has spoken out against it and made efforts to promote multipolarity. |
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Is there a need to reinforce the bloc line of thinking at a time when we see multipolarity and the rising power of emerging countries, including on the military level? |
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And now, at a time when multipolarity, as we call it, or pluralism, is gathering pace, efforts are being made to try to establish stable, pragmatic and balanced international relations. |
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We see the world in the same way. We agree on the importance of multilateralism and multipolarity, and the need to strengthen and reform the United Nations. |
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Multipolarity is a political idea, but it is about more than power relations. |
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Multipolarity has altered the landscape, but in the absence of effective global institutions or leadership, this is a source of confusion and disorder. |
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