Arlé Malz finds multipolar world dysfunctional

The current system of a multipolar world is dysfunctional, the defence expert Arlé Malz writes in the liberal-conservative daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "The change demanded by Russia, China and India from a unipolar to a polycentric world has become a reality without a sustainable system emerging as a result. This in turn has repercussions on the financial markets, which skid from one crisis to the next in ever shorter cycles. Until now the pragmatic action on the part of all those involved in handling immediate crises has managed to banish the sense of disaster. By contrast creeping risks such as climate change or the global food shortage are put up with, and decisions regarding them are put off. For that reason it would be short-sighted to elevate pragmatic action to the status of a recipe for success. The jostling to establish a sustainable supra-national system for the 21st century must go on. But for the time being not even the contours of such a system can be discerned."

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