The Geopolitical Future

To define the current status quo, one must start with the admission that ours is a time of transition. With the end of the Cold War, the world lost the stability of a bipolar geopolitical balance-of-power and entered a phase of multipolar uncertainty. Some observers consider the current situation to be unipolar. It is their contention that the United States is the sole remaining "superpower" now that the Soviet Union is defunct. Others challenge the concept of a U.S. hegemony: they consider the "new world order" an inherently unstable situation. In their opinion, the United States is staggering away from Cold War victory as damaged as the former Union of Soviet

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to Max Weber's theory of politics. According to analyst/scholar Randall Collins, Weber's theory of politics, though not specifically spelled-out, infers "that internal politics is intimately connected with external geopolitics ... from the outside in". In this paper's forecast of the geopolitical future, there will be no isolationism on the scale that American nationalists such as Pat Buchanan envision: interdependence among the core powers will be the metier. Although only three core members have been mentioned so far, China and Russia also be a part of the future multipolar balance-of-power. China and Russia will be treated diplomatically as core members because of their size and military capabilities. Neither nation-state, however, will possess an economic capability equitable to the strength of Japan, the E.C. and the United States (although China has the greater potential of the two to grow into that prominence). Neither China nor Russia, then, will be in the same decision-making position as the primary core powers. As just mentioned above, China is in a stronger position than Russia: its economy has been steadily growing for the past two decades - attracting Western investment - and it has the more immediate pote
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Approximate Word count = 2679
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)

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