was against this backdrop that President Sarkozy declared to the UN General Assembly: “Europe does not want war. It does not want a war of civilizations. It does not want a war of religion. It does not want a cold war. . . . The world is no longer a unipolar world with one super-Power, nor is it a bipolar world with the East and the West. It’s a multipolar world now.”60 He was, in effect, conceding the point Putin had made eighteen months earlier in Munich.
