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

After the Cold War, the United States had the power and legitimacy to transform the world, but it squandered its moment for a unipolar world. America, in retrospect, repeated the mistakes it made ...

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.

As Charles Krauthammer, a prominent political columnist, once put it, the term "unipolar moment" captured the US' peak position in the world at the time. For a while, this ambition seemed achievable.

If there was any remaining doubt, the unipolar U.S. moment is over. On January 30 newly installed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called time on the country’s three-decade-long run as the ...

When historians wish to learn what it was like to live in the United States during the height of its unipolar moment atop the world, they could do worse than to dust off Kilmer’s Batman suit ...

America’s unipolar moment was long gone, with analysts singing swansong of its unchallenged power and trumpeting the rise of the rest. That the United States was still the largest economy in the world ...

Remarkably, the SCO Summit in Astana in July 2024, recognized the shift in global power structure from a unipolar world order to a multipolar one.

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 ...