bipolarity
- noun
- /ˌbaɪˈpɔːlərɪti/
- Specialized
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bipolaridad
- Although all these states, with the exception of Turkey, reacted to the end of the East-West bipolarity with a cut in their armed forces, there was less retrenchment in Type III than in Types I and II.
- Cold War bipolarity
- the end of bipolarity
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So long as bipolarity remained intact, the war in Yugoslavia would not—could not—have erupted.
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Cold War bipolarity helped stabilize the global arms trade, allowing for a two-tiered trade process.
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For the rest of the 1990s, the end of bipolarity and the Cold War will surely continue to bedevil Europe.
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Bipolarity was a system of order and unity, either voluntary or coercive.
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Third, nuclear weapons did not create bipolarity after World War II, but they did prolong its life and, so too, helped to prolong stability.
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Bipolarity froze the status quo into four decades of military stasis: nuclear arms racing substituted for actual war fighting.
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Thus, Joseph S. Nye, professor of international affairs at Harvard University, argues that while a return to bipolarity is unlikely, a move toward multipolarity is inevitable.
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In the security sphere, we were accustomed to bipolarity, under which two well-armed superpowers faced each other, backed by incongruous political-economic systems.
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During the Cold War, the global political landscape was defined by bipolarity, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union emerged as the two dominant superpowers.
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The bipolarity in international relations during the 20th century created a balance of power that significantly influenced military alliances worldwide.
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Etymology
Bipolarity comes from bi- 'two', as in bicycle, and polar, from pole 'end' or 'side', so you can imagine the Cold War as two big 'poles', the United States and the Soviet Union. So, bipolarity in politics means a world controlled by two main powers.
