Consider the following useful aspect of the electromagnetic polarity concept for explaining the Cold War US-Soviet relationship. Despite an arms race between them that many times could have led to World War III in the end conflict led to co-operation. I decided to put into my Predictions column some graphic images from science which I believe provide insights into the current arguments about new global polarities. One is of a monopole. Monopoles do not exist in nature but can be engineered in the laboratory.
Dipoles occur everywhere in electromagnetic nature.
The third is a sketch of a multipolar neuron in an organism's nervous system. So far as I can see the multipolarity concept does not appear to be used in other scientific areas. I consider the monopole as a metaphor for political unipolarity, the dipole for political bipolarity and the neural multipolarity for the political multipolarity. The monopole design shows forces radiating out from its core. It projects all five outward through political pressure and leadership, military intervention, export of key products, pushing high-tech innovation and flooding the world with cultural creations.