I sistemi multipolari. Analisi storica e teorica.
Journal: AMS Dottorato Institutional Doctoral Theses Repository (University of Bologna)
Year: 2010

This research undertakes to provide a typology of multipolar systems. Multipolarity plays a key role in IR theory, for it is strictly associated with the history of European politics since the seventeenth century to the end of World War Two. Despite wide investigation, one can doubt the matter has received a definitive treatment. Trouble is that current studies often consider multipolarity as a one-dimensional concept. They obviously reckon that multipolarism is substantially different from othe