
AI wars in a new age of Great Power rivalry
Published on February 6, 2025
Why do you believe the world is becoming more militarised, with the hopes for peace in the 1990s following the fall of the Berlin Wall now a distant memory? Can you describe the actors and dynamics driving this change?
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought an end to the Cold War – a bipolar world in which the West, led by the United States (US), and the Soviet Union along with its satellite states, fought for global hegemony – and we entered a unipolar period. The US, along with its allies, maintained global domination with no clear competitors.
