China: The New Actor in the Multipolar World By Mariarosaria Iorio, Political Analyst
The Multipolar World: Fragmentation of International Relations International relations are nowadays characterised by major changes that started at the end of the 80s with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indeed, the end of the cold war was marked by the dislocation of the two main political blocks, namely the Soviet Union and the Western World. Such a dislocation resulted in the marginalization of the post-war multilateral system embodied in the United Nations, and the standstill of the multilateral…
