There is no reason to doubt that the economic potential of the new centres of global economic growth will inevitably be converted into political influence and will strengthen multipolarity.” Under such circumstances, for the West to imagine that a global order could be based on its own organizations—the EU and NATO—rather than the truly comprehensive authority of the UN was either self-deceiving or in profoundly bad faith. Nor could the West reasonably claim that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe had “any relation with the modernisation of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in
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