“By 2025, the international system will be a global multipolar one.” That is the forecast of the 2008 volume of the U.S. National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends series—a forecast that still ...

On Friday afternoon, February 21, 1947, the British Ambassador to Washington, Lord Inverchapel, showed up at the State Department and informed then Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson that his ...

A lot is happening in the world right now. The world has watched in horror at the attacks in Israel and the loss of life throughout the region. The world is still watching Russia's invasion of Ukraine ...

Most people think of the international monetary system as an architecturally designed system made in Bretton Woods at the end of the Second World War. This may be true for the international financial ...

Many column inches have been dedicated to dissecting the “great power rivalry” currently playing out between China and the U.S. But what makes a power “great” in the realm of international relations?

US–CHINA talks and high-level discussions among influential leaders might temporarily halt tariffs and reopen communication ...

ASTANA, 4 July (BelTA) – The “golden billion” represented by the West is not happy about the possibility of a multipolar system, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the SCO+ meeting in ...

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The emergence in recent years of the economic and military powers in countries like China, Russia and India has given rise to theories and hopes of a multipolar world that could temper the ...

IN THE WAKE of an invasion that drew international condemnation, Russian officials panicked that their dollar-denominated assets within America’s reach were at risk of abrupt confiscation, sending ...