... the global South. In this regard, multipolarity, as French analysts
explain
, is usually understood by Paris not as the existence of several roughly equal centers of power, but as a joint solution to global problems with the unconditional priority of Western interests.
Victoria Panova:
Impulse of Multipolarity: Outcomes of South Africa’s BRICS Summit
To paraphrase what was said above, it is acceptable to note that where, for example, the U.S. embarked on a hardcore unilateral approach, France has been accustomed to offering soft leadership of ...
... dominance, to a more just and pluralistic system. This new dawn was supposed to rely, on the one hand, on the fundamental role of the UN and, on the other, on the authority and sovereignty of leading great powers, including Russia itself.
The idea of multipolarity has gained traction among many large countries, such as India and China. Even Western experts haven’t dismissed the possibility. In a way, it has been slowly morphing into an idealized picture of a future world order.
Ivan Timofeev:
A State as Civilisation and Political Theory
Meanwhile, a multipolar world is becoming a reality....
... geostrategic position of having stakes in both blocs, which explains why it closely cooperates with them in order to advance its goal of becoming a third pole of influence in the bi-multipolar transitional phase of the global systemic transition to multipolarity. Regarding the Western bloc, it shares these countries’ concerns about China’s rise, especially considering its summer 2020 clashes with the People’s Republic over their disputed Himalayan border. As for the non-Western bloc, it agrees with Russia, China, and ...
... The first is the increasing tendency to either conflate multipolarity and multilateralism and or to surrender the project of multipolarity and settle for multilateralism. The second problem is the question of how to arrive in a multipolar world. As for ... ... aspects are separable and the multipolar aspect is more important than the multilateral one. In the post-Cold War period, the western liberals used multilateralism in service of the unipolar project, while the neoconservatives did so only exceptionally ...
