Polarity

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening that, for now, Serbia was succeeding in maintaining its military neutrality and that it wanted to side neither with NATO nor with any other country.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova commented on the statement of the British Chief of Defense Staff Nicholas Carter, in which he called Russia a "critical threat" from the position of London.

New players who were on the sidelines of the Cold War's bipolar global order have now rejoined the fray. Despite the global financial crisis, the "Middle Kingdom" has conquered a place on almost all of the world's playing fields. Beijing has positioned itself to challenge the dollar as the global reserve currency and extend its position of power throughout the world.

After a heated campaign, Americans elected Donald Trump on Nov. 8 as the next president of their country. The result is also important for the international community because of the United States' global reach.

The international system has been evolving ever since the bipolarity of the Cold War ended. As the unipolar U.S. moment was short lived, and none of the international powers has enough capacity to unilaterally dominate its peers, a somewhat multipolar world system is slowly emerging.

The unipolar world order has ceased to exist, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview on Thursday, Sputnik has reported.

New powerful new centers of economic growth are emerging in Asia and Latin America, he told the Venezuelan state television.

Since the end of the Cold War, the international system has been fluctuating. While the bipolar system has ended, no equivalent is in place yet. In the early days of the post-Cold War era, some talked about the unipolar moment as the United States dominated the world with its unrivalled economic and military power.