Stephen Walt has some advice - or at least hopeful wishes! - on how American policymakers and foreign policy wonks should approach the end of what international-relations “realists” like Walt call the Unipolar Moment. That is basically the 1989-2022 period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year. The US was by far the predominant power in the world with no “peer competitors,” as IR wonks and Pentagon strategists call it.
The new multipolar era in world politics
The new multipolar era in world politics
Stephen Walt has some advice - or at least hopeful wishes! - on how American policymakers and foreign policy wonks should approach the end of what international-relations “realists” like Walt call the Unipolar Moment. That is basically the 1989-2022 period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year. The US was by far the predominant power in the world with no “peer competitors,” as IR wonks and Pentagon strategists call it.