Afghanistan Marks the Beginning of the End of US-led Unipolarity
... mobilization of the U.S. leading to invasion of Afghanistan influenced the geopolitical debate in the post-9/11 period, the country’s early victories provided solid ground to the general belief that global order was best described by a stable U.S.-led unipolarity. Unipolar hubris sustained Back in 1999, William C. Wohlforth famously wrote in his article titled The Stability of a Unipolar World , “The system is unambiguously unipolar,” adding that “the current unipolarity is not only peaceful ...