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Since the relative end to the European empires and the cold war, international relations have seen a shift from a multipolar system of dispersed power, to bipolarity and most recently unipolarity. The imposing rise of United States power beyond the framework of the cold war has tipped the proverbial scales of power indefinitely towards disequilibrium in world dominance. The balance of power seen between the Soviet Union and the US during the post World War years has disintegrated and contemporary International relations can provide no substantial counterweight to the hegemony of US power. ... The United Nations is a supra – national body , but as the Security Council demonstrated in the recent disputes over Iraq, its decisions are fundamentally determined by votes of nations concerned essentially to protect their own individual national interests.
Approximate Word count = 556 Approximate Pages = 2.2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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