Is Multipolarity Good or Bad for the United States?

Melanie Mosley: I think that it is better for the United States and for the world, frankly, for there to be many capable actors because some of those capable actors will have interests that run deeply contrary to our own as well as other states. Brooks Wolforth: If you don't accept that we're in a multipolar system, then you don't have to engage this question. Chris? Well, I want to come back to the point about is multipolarity good or bad for the U.S.?Mosley: We touched all sorts of countries when it was unipolar and when it was bipolar. And so if we are entering an era of multi- polarity,