Abstract

RAPOSO, Henrique. Bush’s Era: reconstruction of the ‘constitutional order’, the persistence of American unipolarity, and the end of «Europe-First Orientation». Relações Internacionais [online]. 2008, n.19, pp.89-104. ISSN 1645-9199.

The Bush Era was marked by two analytical mistakes. In 2003, America was seen as the "Empire". In 2008, conventional wisdom established that we live in a multipolar world. These two mistakes share a common cause: a misunderstanding of the concepts of "unipolarity" and "constitutional order". We aim to demonstrate the following points: (1) the interstate system remains unipolar; (2) a key change has happened not at the level of structural unipolarity, but at the level of the constitutional order (namely in the American system of alliances). We can assert that the unipolar moment has not ended. What has come to an end is the eurocentric moment at the constitutional order.

Keywords : George Bush; American Empire; Unipolarity; Multipolarity; Constitucional Order.

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