THE CHANGING TIDES OF GLOBAL DOMINANCE: EVALUATING THE GREAT POWERS OF THE 21st CENTURY

Abstract

This study uses analytical and qualitative forecasting approaches to create and justify its arguments. Events in the contemporary era have demonstrated how China's nonviolent ascent to prominence as a new power affects the structure of global politics. The economy of China has grown at the fastest rate in several decades. US hegemony will soon be eclipsed by the rise of other nations, especially
China, and the revival of Russia. Due to new trends, unipolarity gave way to multipolarity in international relations. This paper seeks to answer the questions, How can power dynamics in the new global order influence a transition from unipolarity to multipolarity, and how may Russia and China both threaten Western hegemony during this transition through multilateralism?