Shift To Multipolar Politics
Commentators both in and
out of the government speak of
the belated end of the
post-World War II period to be
replaced by an era which,
though still heavily influenced
by political and strategic
bipolarity, will exhibit
complex and ambiguous
interstate relations more akin
in spirit to multi-polar politics.
It can be argued that many of
the fundamental attitudes
sustaining America's
international role since World
War II have been challenged in
the 1960's to the point that
important modifications can be
expected in those attitudes and
the roles which flow from
them.
