About author
Abstract. One of the greatest challenges facing the global community is that a new system of international relations has not yet taken shape. The post-bipolar world, which has existed for more than 30 years, has undergone a transformation from unipolarity to multipolarity. The article argues that for a significant part of time the post-bipolar system was developed by inertia and many features of the bipolar world order were preserved and transmitted in contemporary international relations. However, at the same time there are new features emerging that are not typical of the Cold War period, for example: the growth of the influence of regional powers and non-state actors, situational cooperation, etc. A new stage in the post-bipolar world order begins in the 2010s with the entry of China into the list of the great powers. The article examines the position of three successful regional powers (Brazil, India, Turkey) through the prism of their capabilities to resist the great powers. The author states that the modern world is at the same time too large to be ruled by one or more forces (countries, coalitions of states), but at the same time, too small, due to the rapid dissemination of information.
Keywords: post-bipolarity, new world order, great powers, regional powers, situational cooperation, center-periphery, China.