{"id":46495,"date":"2019-05-31T06:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46495"},"modified":"2019-05-31T06:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:28:46","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-live-in-a-multipolar-world-we-may-be-about-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46495","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/05\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-in-a-multipolar-world-we-may-be-about-to-find-out.html\">What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakdown in the Sino-U.S. trade talks has led a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/united-states-china-cold-war-deglobalization-by-nouriel-roubini-2019-05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number of commentators<\/a>to suggest that America\u2019s \u201cunipolar moment\u201d of post-Cold War preeminence is over, as Washington lashes out against a rising China, whose economic rise threatens America\u2019s historic dominance. Direct military violence is highly unlikely, given the inherent fragility of high-tech civilization. We therefore may see Cold War\u2013style conflict between the two superpowers, as relations in trade or national security matters become increasingly poisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what happens to the rest of us? Will a hitherto globalized world increasingly retreat into bifurcated competing blocs, much as occurred under the original Cold War? Or can the rest of the world develop a more muted and stable form of multilateralism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, we are well past the point where parts of the globe are increasingly carved up via competing ideologies (e.g., capitalism vs. communism), given today\u2019s broad embrace of various permutations of capitalism, or divided via proxy wars, or the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/what-was-the-great-game-195341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">great game<\/a>\u201d of colonial expansion. Today, most nations focus on maximizing the relative productivity of their own respective economies, as opposed to establishing their ideological bona fides as quasi-colonial client states for either the United States or the former Soviet Union. Another important dimension to recognize is that what we understand to be global or international is, for the most part, owned and controlled by industrialized countries:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/industry\/ind\/MNEs-in-the-global-economy-policy-note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">93 percent of foreign-owned production is controlled by Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD) economies<\/a>. Even the historic tendency to focus on state power should be questioned in this moment. In 2016, 69 of the world\u2019s largest 100 economies were corporations, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/10\/corporations-not-countries-dominate-the-list-of-the-world-s-biggest-economic-entities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their own range of interests and methods of functioning.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out The breakdown in the Sino-U.S. trade talks has led a&nbsp;number of commentatorsto suggest that America\u2019s \u201cunipolar moment\u201d of post-Cold War preeminence is over, as Washington lashes out against a rising China, whose economic rise threatens America\u2019s historic dominance. 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