We in Asia see Europe as a balancing power in a world that these days is tending to be dragged into unipolarity. |
The alternative to unipolarity may not be multipolarity at all. |
Out of nervousness about unipolarity, they might underestimate the dangers of a multipolar system in which nonliberal and nondemocratic powers would come to outweigh Europe. |
It may very well be that this is ultimately connected to unipolarity and the dominance of a neo-liberal hegemonic state in the form of the United States. |
On this bottom board, power is widely dispersed, and it makes no sense to speak of unipolarity, multipolarity, or hegemony. |
After decades of a bipolar world, the situation of unipolarity must be transitory and in this the European Union's contribution will be decisive. |