What the world did have in 2000 was a “unipolar moment” in which one nation, the United States, was a global hegemon without a serious ideological or economic rival. If not a formal world government, it was a world order in which that one nation defined and policed the world system.
What the world did have in 2000 was a “unipolar moment” in which one nation, the United States, was a global hegemon without a serious ideological or economic rival. If not a formal world government, it was a world order in which that one nation defined and policed the world system.
Come on, that’s obviously not what Russell meant. His prediction was clearly extremely flawed. This is consensus—Opus 5 agrees with me.