An Apolar World
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The End of Power
Without American hegemony the world would likely return to the dark
ages.
BY NIALL FERGUSON
Monday, June 21, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
We tend to assume that power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. In the
history of world politics, it seems, someone is always bidding for
hegemony. Today it is the United States; a century ago it was Britain.
Before that, it was the French, the Spaniards and so on. The
19th-century German historian Leopold von Ranke, doyen of the study of
statecraft, portrayed modern European history as an incessant struggle
for mastery, in which a balance of power was possible only through
recurrent conflict.
Power, in other words, is not a natural monopoly; the struggle for
mastery is both perennial and universal. The "unipolarity" identified
by commentators following the Soviet collapse cannot last much longer,
for the simple reason that history hates a hyperpower. Sooner or
later, challengers will arise, and back we must go to a multipolar,
multipower world.
Niall Ferguson
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