The result was not a "pax" of any kind, but a cold war and a bipolar world.

During the past two years, however, Soviet power has imploded and a bipolar world has become unipolar.

The big change during these years was a transition from a bipolar world to a multipolar world.

The American President is simply most comfortable in the orderly old bipolar world.

That resulted in the Marshall Plan - and the bipolar world.

The cold war was about the limits of power in a bipolar world; an inherent conservatism inhabited the struggle.

Today, the compelling certainties of a bipolar world are gone.

Unsavory as they were, the bipolar world imposed a crude stability on the globe.

The bipolar world of the cold war no longer exists.

It appeared as the only formula for Europe to preserve its role in the bipolar world.