In the multipolar world that Russia advocates, it sees itself as a centre of regional influence.
Chirac quiere alcanzar lo que los franceses llaman "un mundo multipolar", no dominado por Estados Unidos.
In advocating a multipolar world, Russia sees itself as one of the poles, dominating its region.
Most commentators who welcome this scenario imagine that American predominance would be replaced by some kind of multipolar harmony.
Some countries, notably France, dreamed of a multipolar world in which America would no longer be the only power.
Bradford also points out that the increasingly multipolar nature of the global economy should provide a cushion for other countries.
And if we move from a U.S. unipolar world to something else, that something else may well be a multipolar world.
With hindsight, a confusingly multipolar world was in the making even then.
But multipolar systems have historically been neither particularly stable nor particularly peaceful.
Turkey is also one of the few countries with which today's Russia feels comfortable, a pole in its preferred multipolar system, in which big countries pursue independent policies.
If the British machine is sceptical about Euro-dreams of bestriding a multipolar world, that is because it has a jump-seat view of American might and of the money and unity of purpose required to make it work.
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