Turbulence in a multipolar world: ultra-nationalism, the “China threat” perception, the Greater Russia ideal, and the Trump doctrine

With Putin's attack on Ukraine and Trump, the geostrategic cards are being remixed. For Europe, this is a challenge that it can be able to cope with

After a long bipolar stage in the Cold War period and a substantially unipolar one after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is now moving towards a multipolar order. The trend is not new, but the Donald Trump administration is accelerating it in a brutal and chaotic way, while at the same time propitiating the formation of different poles of power in competition and the erosion of rules and institutions that can keep relations on an orderly …

The first point is the division of the world into spheres of influence with Russia, China, Turkey, the Gulf countries and India, as well as the strengthening of the agreements... Read the article Alexandre Del Valle: Donald Trump, strategist of the multipolar world? appeared first on Current Values.

The hopes that some had with the election of Trump for a cessation of the war in Ukraine in a short time seem to be dashed. The frightening divergence of the interests of the powerful does not make it easy to find a solution. Their plans reveal a shift in interest from "saving" the planet from climate change to the development of numerous artificial intelligence applications. That is why there is much reason for the exploitation of rare and impo…

The lamentations about the loss of a “world order” and a “rule-based international order” have recently become a mantra in comments about so-called geopolitics. These expressions were hardly ever used when such an order supposedly existed, especially since the second half of the 20th century, when the United States became the greatest power and shaped international rules. They began to be a frequent discourse in the mid-2010s, following the Russ…

The seismic wave transmitted by the Trump administration to the system of rules, principles and institutions that governed the international system, starting after World War II, marks the end of the era of convergence and inaugurates that of divergence. A divergence that not only occurs - as would be expected - between democracies and autocracies, but also creeps into the West itself. Although the change in the international scenario had already…