Natella Speranskaya: The collapse of the Soviet Union meant the cancellation of the Yalta system of international relations and the triumph of the single hegemon - the United States, and as a consequence, transformation of the bipolar world order to the unipolar model. Nevertheless, some analysts are still talking about a possible return to the bipolar model. How do you feel about this hypothesis? Is there a likelihood of emergence of a power capable of challenging the global hegemon?
Sergio Gouvea: I do not see the possibility of a return to the bipolar model as something likely to happen. No nation can match, or even challenge, America’s military or economic power and sphere of influence. Russia and China, which seem potentially dangerous to US’s hegemony, could not, in any way, overthrow its power. There is no global ideological basis to sustain an overturn of the situation. Globalized world has been shaped according to the United States ideal of Liberalism, since no other country has developed its own Liberal Way of Life to the extent of America, there is no serious danger of a change of actors (which would be totally meaningless, to replace a Liberal Hyperpower with another). It is already too late to try and indoctrinate the global community on a world-view other than liberalism. The very collapse of the Soviet Union shows us that such an attempt is completely out of time.