From Bipolarity to the Failure of Unipolarity

Abstract

From the perspective of a historical political analysis in the International Relations’ field, it is shown that after the Post Cold War Era, the well-known global power of the United States has not been enough to create a “new international order”, and on the contrary, it has opened a geopolitical competition in which an important group of powers have appeared, along with large size societies and political games which are beyond the Western world’s understanding. In this context, despite of its economic and military power, the United States requires the need to create an active diplomatic structure that allows it to build a consensus in order to be able to act internationally, provided that unilateral actions create isolated actions easily, which could easily become the target of critics and the opponents’ animadversion against the United States’ lonely power.