And the supposed unipolar moment, when America was left to bestride a single-superpower world?
It maintains that U.S. "hyperpower" in a unipolar world is dangerous for stability.
And if we move from a U.S. unipolar world to something else, that something else may well be a multipolar world.
Gates spent more time responding to the conference's Saturday surprise, Russian President Vladimir Putin blasting the U.S.'s post-Cold War foreign policy as unipolar and dangerous.
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Backing out of the reserve currency issue and up to the arguably more profound level of culture and belief, China is not interested in a unipolar world.
The results seem even stronger in the hands of a good therapist: we gave three groups of unipolar depressed patients either medication, treatment as usual, or positive psychotherapy.
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Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance.
For all of the neo-con's unipolar bluster, America will have to seek multilateral solutions to many of the political and economic challenges facing it worldwide to maintain peace abroad and prosperity at home.
"With the rapid rise of other countries, the 'unipolar moment' is over, and 'Pax Americana' -- the era of American ascendancy in international politics that began in 1945 -- is fast winding down, " the report states.
For its part America, enjoying merely the illusion of a unipolar moment in what is an increasingly multi-polar world, has interests in Asia not least of them steadying the now nuclear-tipped rivalry between India and Pakistan, and managing the rise of China where easier relations with India could help.
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