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When it ended, there was a brief period of U.S.-dominated unipolarity after the breakup of the Soviet Union and its dissolution into a dominant Russia and smaller former republics.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

On Feb. 19, 1998, on NBC's "Today," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave the Democratic version of this doctrine of unipolarity.

From Salon • May 26, 2022

"As a result, we've gone from unipolarity in that region to multipolarity, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we're in a real learning phase as to how to deal with it."

From Time Magazine Archive