Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power.
Worldview: Multipolarity is based on 19th and early 20th century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements
Such factors are readily selected from a growing list of forces driving change. How they are prioritised matters for understanding what is happening. So do the concepts and vocabulary used to characterise them. They too are part of the contested field of international power and relations that together make up world order.world order is “a set of rules or institutions that establish who the principal actors are and that help manage their interactions”.
Nonetheless, polarity usefully describes a world in which power is distributed between three or more players, even if the balance of military power remains concentrated between the US and China. Liberal critics of the concept say it is unrealistic for that reason and because the world remains far from equal in economic, civic and human resources.A critic of liberal hegemony through an Asian lens, he proposes that a better way to characterise today’s world is “multiplex” rather than multipolar.
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