Multilateralism, Multipolarism, Unilateralism

[theapportioner]

Much has been made about a new world order emerging, whatwith America exerting its power more brazenly than before, threatening to make irrelevent the UN and NATO (and all other countries, the Pope, and the popular will for that matter), while France, Germany, Russia, and China seek to increase their influence to counterbalance the United States, and Britain tries to work the multilateralist angle. Thoughts, and preferences?