The Liberal Moment
In the 1990/1991 issue of the prestigious globalist journal Foreign Affairs, American expert Charles Krauthammer published a programmatic article titled “The Unipolar Moment.”1 In this work, he proposed an explanation for the end of the bipolar world. Following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact countries and the disintegration of the Soviet Union (which had not yet occurred at the time of the article’s publication), a new world order would emerge in which the United States and the collective West (NATO) would remain the sole pole of power, ruling the world by establishing rules, norms, and laws, while equating their own interests and values with universal, global, and mandatory standards. Krauthammer called this de facto global hegemony of the West the “unipolar moment.”
