Balanța de putere unipolară. Mai există după 1991 o balanță de putere globală?
The Unipolar Balance of Power. Is there after 1991 a Global Balance?

Summary/Abstract: The author thinks that the US is the hegemonic power of our days and its power has a tendency to be used in a unilateral way, a fact which provoked some opposing reactions from other players. Because US is too strong and a democratic power, opposition takes the form of “soft balancing” rather than “hard balancing”. There is a certain tension between the domestic politics’ principles which insists on the minimal state, one which abstain interfering too much in the lives of citizens, and those of the external relations, where the US, during the GW Bush Jr. administration, has been more expansionist and proactive. Only a move towards multilateralism and institutional cooperation with the other states could reduce the incentives to balance against US interests in the future.

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