Multipolarity

Opinion – AI Nationalism and the Multipolar Future

Nicholas Morieson • Oct 7 2025 • Articles

The race for AI supremacy is about legitimacy, identity, and the authority to decide which values will be embedded in infrastructures that increasingly govern human life.

Why Polarity Misleads: Toward a New Grammar of International Relations

Arthur Michelino • Sep 26 2025 • Articles

The appeal of polarity lies in its simplicity, but it no longer reflects the architecture of global politics.

Forecasting the Next World War: Between Theory and Practice

Raphaël P.P. Dosson • Aug 18 2025 • Articles

History shows that oscillating between realism and idealism drives both to extremes, making us reactive to crises and conducive to war.

Interview – Olukayode Bakare

E-International Relations • Jun 28 2025 • Features

Olukayode Bakare analyzes coups, global rivalries, Nigeria-EU ties, and Africa’s democratic decline amid insecurity and shifting geopolitical dynamics.

Beyond the West: Civilizational Narratives and the Struggle for a New Global Order

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk and Umut Can Adisonmez • May 27 2025 • Articles

As Western institutions falter and global power diffuses, non-Western actors are seizing the opportunity to redefine norms on their own terms.

Interview – Jorge Heine

E-International Relations • Apr 14 2025 • Features

Retired ambassador Jorge Heine sees Global IR and active non-alignment as key for the Global South to break free from outdated paradigms and shape a multipolar world.

Goodbye West: Long Live World Order

Amitav Acharya • Mar 13 2025 • Articles

Saying goodbye to the West should not be bemoaned, rather it might accelerate the arrival of a multiplex world where there is no single hegemon or select group of powers.

Not So Bad After All: How US Foreign Policy Could Navigate a Multipolar World

Mark N. Katz • Dec 15 2024 • Articles

Containing rivals via buck-passing may be less costly for the U.S. than continuing to respond to each and every threat as if in a unipolar world.

Opinion – Is Multipolarity Destined to Destabilize the World?

Andrew Latham and Raymond Yu • Dec 12 2024 • Articles

With the right approach, multipolarity could evolve into an era of constructive engagement, where powers balance their ambitions with a sense of responsibility.

Interview – Simon Chadwick

E-International Relations • Jul 2 2023 • Features

Simon Chadwick explores the notion of a geopolitical economy of sport, the impact of Covid-19 and emerging multipolarity, and assesses the next World Cup and Olympics.

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