El escenario mundial hacia el año 2000

Authors

  • Heraldo Muñoz Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

It is possible to say that the world order is changing, but this transition process is complex and involves advances that are sometimes quite rapid and unexpected, often slow and difficult, and sometimes partial setbacks and attempts to rebuild the old order. This new order that emerged towards the end of the 1980s is very different from that prevailing in the first years of the second postwar period. We argue that the typical bipolarism of the 1950s and 1960s can hardly be re-imposed in the 1990s, and the United States will face increasing obstacles in its efforts to preserve its world hegemony. We project an international order towards the year 2000 with less bipolarism, more multipolarity, competition and rearrangement among the developed powers, which presents obvious advantages for Latin America and the Third World in general.

Keywords:

New International Order, American Hegemony, World Economy, Technological Revolution, Multipolarity

Author Biography

Heraldo Muñoz, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Ph. D. en relaciones internacionales del Graduate School of International Studies, Universidad de Denver, Estados Unidos.  Profesor e invetigador del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile.