China seeks a multipolar world but a unipolar Asia.

By contrast, the US desires a unipolar world but a multipolar Asia.

In some ways, the end of a unipolar world could truly be the Hour of Europe.

Such consolidation is virtually impossible in a unipolar world order, with its one sided concept of good and evil.

To change the state of the world it was necessary to change the current unfair, unequal and unipolar international order.

A decade later, with the Cold War s end, the new conventional wisdom was that the world was a unipolar American hegemony.

In the present circumstances of a unipolar world, we do not see the need to exercise the veto in this United Nations body.

America s unipolar expectations have not been ratified by events.

The new doctrine is multipolarity the idea that the world is (or should be) made up of several distinctive poles of attraction. The contrast is with a unipolar (that is, an American or Western dominated) world.

This world is no longer unipolar, bipolar, or even multipolar, because the actors that matter are not single states but groups of states that are more or less densely connected.

We must not forget that we live in a unipolar world whose super Power has violated international law with impunity and attempts to manipulate international organizations, including the United Nations.

There is merit, I also believe, in Putin s contention that a multipolar world is better than a unipolar world for advancing the cause of human flourishing. No single power or coalition is wise or disinterested enough to claim universal sovereignty.

Listen carefully these days to Israelis and South Koreans. What they are hinting at is no less than a tectonic shift in the international system the shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world.

Unchallenged in the world s unipolar moment, the US had the luxury of not knowing its strategic goals.

On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar and likely to remain so for a while.

Europe has a unique chance to demonstrate that it can make a difference in America s post unipolar moment.

The US will remain first among equals in hard and soft power, but the unipolar moment is over.

The Soviet demise encouraged US political elites to construct a unipolar view of America s global position and interest.

Slowly, however, Europe has seemed to grow more cohesive in its opposition to American unipolar policies and pretensions.

America s unipolar expectations have not been ratified by events. Indeed, there is now considerable opposition to that vision in the US itself.

Indeed, while hubris and the crisis have seriously undermined the world s hyperpower, no multipolar order has emerged to follow America s unipolar moment.

In some ways, the end of a unipolar world could truly be the Hour of Europe. But that can happen only if the EU regains its confidence and steps into a positive role one that it must play with, not against, the US.

But the repercussions for international politics of the disabling conditions diagnosed as manic depressive illnesses (including major unipolar depression) and schizophrenia could not be more serious.

Indeed, during this necessarily short and fragile unipolar moment, Clinton probably had an intuition of what America s new responsibilities should be, but he did not deliver.

The new unilateralists who dominated Bush s first administration made the mistake of thinking that the unipolar distribution of power in the military context was sufficient to guide foreign policy.

As we move from a unipolar international order to one with multiple regional powers, realism should allow them to vie for influence while keeping the costs as low as possible.

All these developments subtly indicate a deep trend that can be formalized in one sentence America s unipolar moment, which began in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, is over.

Indeed, the most common of these illnesses, unipolar depression, is the least complex in terms of its symptoms, but also the most lethal 20 of depressed patients are estimated to commit suicide.

It is distributed in a pattern that resembles a three dimensional chess game. On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar, and the US is likely to remain the only superpower for some time.

A second scenario is that the US remains Asia s principal security anchor, with or without a third possibility the emergence of a constellation of Asian states with common interests working together to ensure that Asia is not unipolar.

We can build a global order based on justice, one that negates the current unipolar order by developing tolerance for diversity instead of seeking imposition and assimi lation. Such an order will be culturally inclusive and less hegemonic, encompassing states, non state actors, and social groups to minimize violence and maximize economic well being.

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He compared the capitalist world (i.e., First World) to the nobility and the communist world (i.e., Second World) to the clergy.

There is my world and there is your world, and my world is always better than your world, because my world, you see, is rational and yours is superstition.

The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in religion or mythology, is the world center or the connection between Heaven and Earth.

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They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

They are of the world therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

So this whole world, the nano world, this area in here is called the nano world, and the nano world, the whole micro world that we see, there's a nano world that is wrapped up within that, and the whole and that is the world of molecules and atoms.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

This destructive world has already experienced two world wars.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

The United Nations was designed to serve the world of the aftermath of the Second World War a world different in many ways from today's world.