POLS 4440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Geocentric Model, Bastion, Dominate
8 Nov 2018
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Accepting limits: how to adapt to a copernican world 2012. To convey all the changes in the classic international relations parlance of unipolar, bipolar and multipolar words, they are better captured as the transformation from a ptolemaic to a. Ptolemy in the 2nd century said that the universe was a geo-centric model, now international relations are a us-centric model. The us is seen by many, especially within the us itself, as being at the center of the cold war world the wielder of power, the economic engine, the bastion of free-world ideology. International institutions were designed largely in america"s image, the terms of cooperation largely set by washington. When the cold war finally ended with the defeat of the soviet. Union, the world seemed even more ptolemaic the united states the sole surviving superpower, the u. s. economy driving globalization, democracy sweeping the world. The united states is not at the center.
