title: Competing Visions of World Order: How China, the US, the EU and Russia Conceive the Transition to Multipolarity
abstract: Prior and in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine, the United States, the Russian Federation, the European Union and the People's Republic of China launched a series of strategic documents, revealing their conceptions of the current and future world order.while these documents differ in form, they are based on common understanding that the western-led "rules-based order" (RBO) is undergoing a transition towards multipolarity.For the U.S. and the EU, the logical objective is to keep as much of the