By Lieutenant Commander Jimmy Drennan, USN*
In 2008, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, argued the world was entering an Age of Nonpolarity. He suggested the world had progressed from the bipolar Cold War era, past the unipolarity that followed the United States’ victory, and even the multipolar era of multiple competing nation states that many believed had emerged in the early 21st century.
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2020, Issue 2, in December 2020.
