The Unipolar World Order and its Dynamics
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Since 1989 the academic debate on how to address the post-Cold War world order has flourished. It centres on whether the current world order is to be analysed in terms of being multipolar, still bipolar, for the moment unipolar, fragmented, in the hands of the civilizations, or democratic and peaceful. If the order is unipolar, as I assume, questions arise as to what characterizes a unipolar order in general, and what can be expected from a US unipolar order in particular.
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I wish to thank Tom Bryder, Michael Cox, Bertel Heurlin, Carsten Jensen, Morten Kelstrup, Morten Ougaard, James Rosenau, Randall Schweller, Kenneth Waltz, Michael Williams and Ole Wæver for useful comments on earlier drafts.
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Hansen, B. (2000). The Unipolar World Order and its Dynamics. In: Hansen, B., Heurlin, B. (eds) The New World Order. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905277_5
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The Unipolar World Order and its Dynamics Birthe Hansen1 112 Since 1989 the academic debate on how to address the post-Cold War world order has flourished. It centres on whether the current world order is to be analysed in terms of being multipolar, still bipolar, for the moment unipolar, fragmented, in the hands of the civilizations, or