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The most significant development in global politics following the end of the bi-polar Cold War era has been the rise of a multi-polar state system. This has led to the emergence of major potential super-powers, global rivalry, international terrorism and the gradual weakening of the one remaining hegemonic, uni-polar state after the Cold War the US. The idealistic hopes following the collapse of communism have evaporated and Cold War competition between liberal capitalism and communism has been replaced by multi-polar global rivalry that can only be resolved by a balance of power buttressed by international law. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book, Professor Rein Mllerson outlines the challenges associated with the new geopolitics of the twenty-first century. Based on in-depth research over several decades it is an essential tool for understanding the new world order and the ensuing crises in global politics.

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Rein Mllerson is Research Professor at the University of Tallinn He was - photo 1Rein Mllerson is Research Professor at the University of Tallinn. He was formerly Professor of International Law at Kings College London, UN Regional Advisor for Central Asia and Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of 12 books on international law and politics.
This is a compelling book. Rein Mllerson writes with great authority and knowledge, reflecting his experience as a practitioner in international law and relations and as one of the worlds leading scholars in this field.
Lord Raymond Plant,
Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy,
Kings College London
This book is a thoughtful and at times imaginative reflection on the state of international law today, drawing on literature from law, politics and strategy. It is a thoroughly engaging read.
Guglielmo Verdirame, Professor of International Law,
Kings College London
Well researched and compellingly written, this book is one of the best recent works on the subject of geopolitics and international law, especially its implications for international relations in the world today. Rein Mllerson has rightly questioned many assumptions taken for granted for so long in the West on such vital issues as democracy, regime change and humanitarian interventions, and it should be a must-read for all those who are interested in a more sophisticated understanding of the world today and in seeking a more just world order.
Zhang Weiwei, Director of the China Institute,
Fudan University, China
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Published in 2017 by
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Copyright 2017 Rein Mllerson
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been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988.
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Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
To George Mllerson, with love and gratitude for his contribution.
Acknowledgements
I warmly thank I.B.Tauris and particularly Lester Crook, Jo Godfrey and Sara Magness for their efforts and enthusiasm in helping me to the completion of the manuscript.
Parts of this book are based on the following previously published articles:
Rein Mllerson, Ideology, Geopolitics and International Law, Chinese Journal of International Law (2016) 15 (1): 4773.
Rein Mllerson, Democratization: Supply-Stimulated or Demand-Induced?, in Isabelle Buffard et al. (eds), International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation: Festschrift in Honour of Gerhard Hafner (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008).
Introduction
The high some would say nave expectation that many, including myself, had after the end of the Cold War has not materialised: the expectation of a world in which law, impartially interpreted and applied, would have primacy over politics. Instead, differing visions of desirable and possible world orders are today accompanied by propaganda warfare, where even international law is used as a tool of hegemonic dominance or, on the contrary, as an instrument to counter such dominance. In place of the Cold War rivalry between the belief in liberal capitalism and communist creeds, today the main competition is between ideologies justifying the continuation and expansion of a unipolar (or non-polar) world with one centre of power, a world that is also becoming more and more homogeneous (liberaldemocratic), and a multipolar balance-of-power world where diverse political, economic and ideological systems cooperate and compete. This book argues that, taking into account the very size, and even more so the cultural and developmental diversities, as well as the complexity and increasing reflexivity of the world, the only realistic international system is a multipolar one. Moreover, international law, as a normative system based on a balance of interests and compromises and not necessarily on shared ideology or values (this may underpin domestic legal systems or EU law), can function relatively well only in a multipolar, balance-of-power, international system, which is consciously and conscientiously built and accepted as legitimate. And though the processes of globalisation have a tendency to homogenise the world while making many, if not most, states more heterogeneous, attempts to accelerate these processes are bound to be counter-productive.
The course of history is constantly accelerating in geometrical progression. Changes that, millennia ago, took centuries to bear fruit, today happen within decades. Only 30 years ago we lived in a stable bipolar world; a quarter of a century back the world entered into a unipolar moment where one indispensable nation seemed to order anarchy in international relations. Today, elements of multipolarity are becoming more and more visible, and this multipolarity has so far had more conflictual than co-operational aspects. Such a situation is due, at least to an extent, to the fact that the shoots of the emerging multipolarity are not recognised by those whose interests lie in the existence and prolongation of the unipolar moment and turning it into a unipolar century, while the advocates of multipolarity, instead of practising bandwagoning, have started counter-balancing. This is only a slightly modified and moderated version of the deterministic, unilineal and unidirectional Hegelian, Marxian, Fukuyamian end-of-history argument. Such end-of-history philosophy is used to justify the expansion of liberal democracy all over the world as well as the efforts to perpetuate unipolarity and to make those who are against it seen as being on the wrong side of history.
There is no (not yet, at least) clash of civilisations predicted by Samuel Huntington (though there are certainly visible elements of it), but there is an increasing competition between differing visions of desirable and possible world orders. This is one of the, if not the, main obstacles on the path to finding solutions to a series of conflictual situations. Some of the current conflicts or potentially conflictual situations (the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia, the tragedy of Ukraine, as well as tensions in the South China Sea) are direct results of states acting in accordance with their clashing visions of the world, while many others have been exacerbated, and finding solutions to them has been delayed or hampered, since the existing or emerging centres of power consider them secondary in comparison with what, in their view, are their main interests or threats. They are striving either to consolidate the existing balance (imbalance) of power or to change it in their favour. Although the current turmoils in, for example, the Middle East and northern Africa have many variables, both local and regional, the prevalence of conflictual elements in great-power relations (especially USRussia relations) and limited coordination (with some exceptions, like the 5+1 cooperation on the Iranian nuclear programme) between them have exacerbated the Middle Eastern situation instead of helping de-escalate the conflicts (e.g., Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq).
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