Bipolar world
The bipolar world is a Cold War era expression and referred to the division of the earth into a western hemisphere under the leadership of the USA and an eastern hemisphere in which the USSR exercised its power.
The term ignores the movement of the non-aligned states , as they did not appear as major actors in the Cold War, and must therefore be understood as an abstract paradigm .
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the concept of the bipolar world was initially obsolete and the USA was seen as the only remaining superpower . Political theories that were formulated after the end of the Cold War were either based on a monopolar world (cf. Francis Fukuyama : End of History ), in which the US political and social model would prevail, or postulated with increasing aggregation political, economic and military power through states or communities of states such as China, India, Russia, the organization of the Islamic Conference or the EU, the emergence of a multipolar world (cf. Samuel P. Huntington : Clash of Cultures ).
See also
literature
- Francis Fukuyama: The End of the Story. Kindler-Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3463401324 .
- Samuel P. Huntington: Clash of Cultures. The reshaping of world politics in the 21st century. Goldmann-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3442151905 .
Web links
- The beginning of bipolarity , Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), April 15, 2005.