The contemporary international system combines elements of political-strategic bipolarity with elements of political and economic multipolarity. This work focuses on some elements of a multipolar tendency that have modified the structure and functioning of the international political system in recent decades, making it more complex and fluid and at the same time less susceptible to unilateral manipulation by each of the superpowers. We argue that, although the international system retains characteristics of bipolarity in political-strategic aspects, the political and economic multipolar tendencies have reached such gravity that the characterization of the current international system as a mixed system, which combines bipolar and multipolar elements, is valid.
Keywords:
International System, Multipolarity, Superpowers, Bipolarity, International Actors
Author Biography
Manfred Wilhelmy von Wolff, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile; Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Cientista político. Profesor de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso y del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile.
Wilhelmy von Wolff, M. (1987). La evolución de la multipolaridad. Estudios Internacionales, 20(79), p. 379–401. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1987.15728
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