The End of the Unipolar Moment? September 11 and the Future of World Order  

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Smith, Steve

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Relations vol. 16 no. 2 (Aug. 2002), page 171–183.
Topik: terrorism; September 11; unipolarity; US foreign policy; world order
Fulltext: 171.IR16.2pdf (63.12KB)

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The events of September 11 at first seemed to change the Bush administration’s attitude towards multilateralism. But this now appears to have been a temporary shift of emphasis and once again the administration is pursuing an essentially unilateralist foreign policy. This article looks at the impact of September 11 on US foreign policy, focusing specifically on the implications the events have for US power and for the structure of world politics. The article contextualizes US foreign policy by discussing the debates over unipolarity that followed the end of the cold war. It then looks at the interpretations offered by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington and Benjamin Barber. It then discusses the implications of September 11, before looking at the nature of current US foreign policy, the relative power, both ‘soft’ and ‘hard’, of the US and the prospects for future world order. The article concludes that world orders are always in the interests of some and that current unilateralist US policies are unlikely to create a more humane world order and might even be against US long-term interests.

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