The word "multipolar" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective which is used to describe an international structure which consists of multiple centers of power or influence. For example, you might say "The multipolar political landscape has caused a precarious balance in the region."
The last time the UK hosted a Nato summit was in 1990, when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, the cold war was coming to an end, and the alliance was questioning its relevance in a multipolar world where soft power might count more than hard power.
Officially, the two men were "reaffirming the principle of a multipolar world", which is code for grumbling about America's far-reaching influence.
During their long run as Top Nation, the Brits had their share of them all.A shift from a unipolar moment to a multipolar one is neither a predictor nor a symptom of decline.
Talk in Moscow of a "multipolar world" has given way to praise for "common European civilisation".
Those prudent American strategists preparing their countrymen for a "multipolar" world are wrong.
This is an annual event that under Jacques Chirac tended to be a lecture on the need for a multipolar world ie, a world not dominated by the American superpower (or "hyperpower", as Hubert Védrine, a Socialist foreign minister, once termed the nation of Uncle Sam).
America's claim to be a beacon of freedom in a dark world has been dimmed by Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and the flouting of the Geneva Conventions amid the panicky "unipolar" posturing in the aftermath of September 11th.Now the world seems very multipolar.
Such assertiveness punctures happy Euro-dreams of a multipolar world.
That sounds like good news for the European Union, and all who dream of a "multipolar" order in which European wealth counts as much as American military might.
Instead, there can be and should be a world that is more multipolar and diverse.
"I've no doubt whatsoever," he said at Evian, "that the multipolar vision of the world that I have defended for some time is certainly supported by a majority of countries throughout the world".
