The Changing Landscape of Global Affairs
2. What Decline? Do Not Bet Against America, Yet!
3. The European Union: An Economic Giant and a Political Dwarf
4. The Rise of Nonstate Actors
5. A Comeback of Nuclear Arsenals
A Multipolar World Order
Since the end of the Cold War, we have witnessed the formation of a new multipolar world ruled by several centers of political and economic decision making [1]. The collapse of the Soviet Union and communist regimes in the 1990s marks the end of global bipolarity that had started shortly after the Second World War. While during the Cold War the two undisputable superpowers namely the United States and the Soviet Union dominated the world arena, in the past two decades, ...
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