Pluripolar

Polarity, in political thought, relates to distributions of power and influence in both hard and soft forms. The Pluripolar world stands in contrast to both the Bipolar world (of two competing ideological positions in the Cold War era), and the Unipolar world (US hegemony) that emerged in a blip of existence after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Pluripolarity upholds difference, and because of this, is distinct from Multipolarity (as simply being many). The potential for pluripolarity is linked to new conceptions of cosmopolitics, wherein Europe and the Western-Atlantic alliance are decentered from their hegemonic role in producing unilateral globalization, and the focus shifts towards a global globalization.