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The Rise of a Not-So-New World Order

Nov 15, 2017 | 22:20 GMT

For decades the United States has sat atop a unipolar world, unrivaled in its influence over the rest of the globe.

On their face, any parallels between today and the Cold War of decades past seem overblown.

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For decades the United States has sat atop a unipolar world, unrivaled in its influence over the rest of the globe. But now that may be changing as a new, informal alliance takes shape between China and Russia. The two great powers have a mutual interest in overturning an international order that has long advantaged the West at their own expense. And as the Earth's sole superpower turns inward, they will seek to carve out bigger backyards. Will their marriage of convenience once more give rise to the bipolarity that characterized the Cold War, or will it unravel in the face of a natural rivalry rooted in geopolitics?...

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