Unipolarity Quotes

In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

We have to really get used to the fact that there is more than one center in the world politics, that the unipolar world never succeeded, that there are more growing, emerging, economic, financial powers…

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

American influence is not what it used to be.

The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.