Competing Visions of World Order: How China, the US, the EU and Russia Conceive the Transition to Multipolarity

Janković, Slobodan and Mitić, Aleksandar (2024) Competing Visions of World Order: How China, the US, the EU and Russia Conceive the Transition to Multipolarity. In: Global Security and International Relations After the Escalation of the Ukrainian Crisis. Institute of International Politics and Economics; Faculty of Security, University; Sapienza University, Department of Political Science; Austin Peay State University, Belgrade; Rome; Clarksville, pp. 102-131. ISBN 978-86-7067-328-1

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Abstract

Prior and in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine, the United States, the Russian Federation, the European Union and the People’s Republic of China launched a series of strategic documents, revealing their conceptions of the current and future world order. while these documents differ in form, they are based on common understanding that the western-led “rules-based order” (RBO) is undergoing a transition towards multipolarity. For the U.S. and the EU, the logical objective is to keep as much of the RBO intact as possible, and to absorb the changing international context to their advantage. China and Russia, on the other hand, are pursuing visions of change of world order – political, military, economic, ideological, cultural and normative – which would go beyond cosmetic changes reminiscent of a status quo. This paper aims to present and analyse these differing visions of world order and their perspectives in the transitioning of global political trends, as all the major powers promote strategic narratives in line with strategic documents. authors contrast the competing visions of world order and discuss how they relate to the realities of each power’s statecraft capabilities.

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