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The Old World systems were nearly always multipolar, although up to now multipolarity has never been truly general or equal. Thus, hegemony has always been more an objective pursued by the powerful than an actual reality. When hegemony has existed, it has always been relative and provisional.
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This chapter contains extracts from Samir Amin: Beyond US hegemony (London: Zed 2006). The copyright for this text is retained by the author.
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Amin, S. (2014). Multipolarity in the Twentieth Century. In: Samir Amin. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01116-5_6
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