With both Western and Eastern Europe beset by political conflict and economic stagnation, the five centuries of European global dominance are drawing to an end. The reality now, following the end of the bipolar supremacy of the US and the Soviet Union and a brief “unipolar” phase following the Soviet Union’s collapse, is that we are now in a “multipolar” world.
那么，接下来会发生什么？西欧和东欧都面临着政治冲突和经济停滞，五个世纪的欧洲全球主导地位正在走向终点。现在的现实——在美苏两极状况结束和苏联解体后的短暂“单极”时期后——是我们正处于“多极”世界。