After the Cold War, the United States had the power and legitimacy to remake the world—but it squandered its unipolar moment. America, in retrospect, repeated the mistakes it made after World War I.

The unipolar moment is over, but today’s world isn’t peaceful, orderly or rules-driven. Instead, we are looking at an era of geopolitical competition driving a wave of wars.

But that unipolar moment was short-lived. Within a couple decades, a new global power emerged in China, and Russia sought to once again lay claim to its imperial ambitions.

As the unipolar world unravels, 2025 marks a defining moment in global history—with multipolarity, regionalism, and ...

But if the “unipolar moment” is over and the world is now bipolar or multipolar, American cultural influence—sometimes called “soft power”—deserves reconsideration no less than the ...

The USA’s unipolar moment is being challenged and under threat from two intensely interwoven realities. One, from American own pressure emerging out of unilateralism, ...

While America’s “unipolar moment” would surely not “continue for centuries,” its end, he predicted, “seems a long way off for now. ...

Moreover, the unipolar moment has ended. As China, under the rule of the Communist Party, displaced the Soviet Union as our primary geopolitical adversary, ...

The time following the Cold War was what foreign policy wonks now, somewhat dolefully, refer to as the "unipolar moment."The term, coined by columnist Charles Krauthammer, described an era in ...

How America Blew Its Unipolar Moment An international order founded not on institutions but on hegemonic benevolence proved impossible to sustain. May 26, 2025, 12:01 AM ...

The unipolar moment is over, but today’s world isn’t peaceful, orderly or rules-driven. Instead, we are looking at an era of geopolitical competition driving a wave of wars.