Dispersed power is not enough; a multipolar order lasts when its members actively restore balance against a would-be dominant power, as the Westphalian guarantor arrangement did. A self-correcting multipolarity gets stronger under stress; a merely divided one only resists until one part outgrows the rest.

Evidence 3 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  Instead of just providing friction against power centralization, it introduced a feedback loop that actively corrected and pulled the system away from centralization.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  Systems in which participants cooperate to compensate for power grabs can create an anti-fragile multipolarity that gets stronger under stress.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  Unipolar systems with a single dominant actor can arbitrarily breach voluntarism without fearing feedback.

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