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Multipolarity (International relations)


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    • found: Work cat: De Santis, H. The right to rule, 2020:CIP t.p. (American exceptionalism in a multipolar world order) (DLC)2020039365
    • found: Zaki Laidi (political scientist) www homepage, September 2, 2020(multipolarity: A multipolar system is a system in which power is distributed at least among 3 significant poles concentrating wealth and/or military capabilities and able to block or disrupt major political arrangements threatening their major interests.)
    • found: Columbia international affairs online, www homepage, September 2, 2020:in Garzon, J., Multipolarity and the Future of Regionalism : Latin America and Beyond (This paper inquires into the effects of an emerging multipolar world on the international institution of regionalism. While IR scholarship has been making a strong case for the regionalization of world politics since the 1990s, the fact that most of the rising powers are also the sole regional powers of their home regions has led some scholars to argue that the advent of multipolarity can only strengthen this general trend toward a more regionalized international order.)
    • found: ProQuest World wide political science abstracts database, September 2, 2020(1,448 hits under "Mulitpolarity")
    • found: Wikipedia, September 2, 2020:entry under "Polarity (international relations)" (Multipolarity is a distribution of power in which more than two nation-states have nearly equal amounts of military, cultural, and economic influence.)
    • found: Merriam Webster online, Oct. 28, 2020:multipolar (adj.; def. 3: characterized by more than two centers of power or interest; a multipolar world; multipolarity, noun)
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