Is Multi-Polar World Order Necessarily Unstable?

As a Multi-polar world

Multi-polar world is a common word to describe the world order after Cold War. The main feature of a multi-polar world is a regulated multi-polar world with renovated multilateral institutions.

A multi-polar world order was not necessarily unstable. Multi-polar was defined as a system which is divided among several power centers. As in a multi-polar world, no one single power has the monopole on all the poles, for instance in economic and defense terms.

Economy and military are the aspects we are going to measure the stability of the multi-polar world. Power was not absolute because its ideology has been replaced by the relativity of the values in the world. For example, military was absolute during the World Wars and nowadays economy becomes absolute. Therefore, we are going to analyse the change of polar system of the world history from time to time in order to distinguish the necessity of stability of the world.

Bipolar system

Bipolar system was started since the World War II. The world was separated into two camps, which are Socialism and Capitalism, with opposing policy, economic and ideological systems.

- China -

China is one of the members of socialism camp. In 1945-1949, the two parties are Guomindang (國民黨) and Communist Party (共產黨) and represented to two different principles in China. The Guomindang is capitalism and Communist party is socialism. They were against another in Chinese Civil War. As we know, the winner of the war is Communist party. And then the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established.

At that time, Cold War is the beginning of these two big camps’ fight. Being the member of one camp, PRC participated in two biggest wars. The first one is Korean War in 1950-1953. PRC supported the North-Korean and had a slogan “Resisting America, assist Korea” for this Nationwide campaigns. Unfortunately, the casualties of PRC are around 400,000. The second one is Vietnam War in 1959-1975. Due to the...