World Politic Changes
The political system during the history has suffered so mane changes.
If we go back in history to see how the system had changed with the leaders of each time. As we now today the world is based in a democratic system, but to understand how does this system arrive we have to see all the changes since the ancient Greek and Roman political systems.
At the beginning the territory that a civilisation had was the most important thing, but with the time other ways of thinking arrived. Passing through Territorial State, Sovereignty, and Nationalism to Democracy. All those contributions from the Greeks and Romans worked and remerged later, but during that time where the entire world was halt the Religious Authority led the world.
It was until the Eighteen and Nineteenth centuries that we could find a notable change in the politic system with the emerging of the sovereign state. During these centuries the most important changes were the Popular Sovereignty, the Westernization of the International System and the Multipolar System. Before the Popular Sovereignty only one person ruled the territories and normally it was sad that he had a divine power, but this was stop when people had the possibility to shows their leader. The developing of technology in Western Europe had an important impact in politics. Europe started to sprit out and makes colonies in Africa and America. After this type of organisation countries started to make alliances and this was called Multipolar System.
In the twentieth century the world had almost 1.5 billion people and there were not global organizations, the world was ruled by Europe as a global power but with all the revolutions and wars during the beginning of this period, other nations begun to play a more important role in the politic world situation. With the organisations as UN and the League of Nations, Africa, Asia and Latin America became stronger.
With the World War II all the multipolar systems formed in Europe ended but the bipolar system emerged. Now the world was rule by two main powers, the USSR and the United States. This time where both power nations were fighting for the control of the world is known as the Cold War. The union of the communist countries made direct confrontations. During the end of the twenty-century the bipolar system ended with the collapse of the communist countries.
After the cold war the United State continued growing rapidly, with this economic and military dominance it was consider a the leader of the Unipolar Sistem.
With the aggressive and unilateral policy of the US, it can cause the union of other nations such as Russia and China as an opposition to the US, making at the moment a Bipolar System. But in this case it is important to see that the multipolar systems that will emerge will be different from the ones of the World Wars, now the alliances are made by International Organizations like the European Union and the United Nations. This will change the dynamics of the international system.
In the actuality most non-western countries are developing so fast making the perspectives and demands of these countries growing and changing the political and economic world system.
Basic information obtained from
The Evolution of World Politics -“International Politics on the World Stage” John T. Roke – Eleven Edition – Mc Graw Hill – Pgs. 29-49
