The Incoming Multipolar World

Glenn Diesen & Arman Grigoryan

I was on the Armenian News Network Groong Podcast with Arman Grogoryan to discuss how different parts of the world are adjusting to the multipolar realities that are already here. States can enhance their security and economic strength if they respond to the systemic pressures from the new international distribution of power. The most important thing the US can do under multipolarity is for the US to accept it is only one among several great powers, as the efforts to dominate the international system will result in collective balancing. For the rest of the world, it is important to pursue economic diversification and avoid zero-sum military alliances to reduce excessive dependence and thus subordination to one centre of power. Europe is stuck in a liberal hegemonic ideology of how it wants the world to be, and has thus ignored how the world is - and the consequence is a continent in rapid decline.