The Promotion of Democracy and Great Power Politics: The Prism of Energy
摘要
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the world moved from bipolarity to unipolarity, with the United States as the only superpower. It enjoyed “decisive preponderance in all the underlying components of power: economic, military, technological and geopolitical” and was able to largely neglect security considerations in its foreign policy. In the early 1990s, the United States set to work on creating a liberal international order.