THE NEW WORLD SYSTEM : A RETURN to the NATURAL CENTRALITY of the WORLD ISLAND

Pepe Escobar, in presenting the soon to come (out in mid-February 2024) book by Professor Glenn Diesen *The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order*

From the article :

” Diesen hits the nail on the head when it comes to the Russia-China strategic partnership – on which the overwhelmingly majority of European intellectuals is clueless … “

“Diesen shows how ‘Russia can be considered the successor of the Mongolian nomads as the last custodian of the Eurasian land corridor’, while ‘China revives the Ancient Silk Roads with economic connectivity’. In consequence, *a powerful Eurasian gravitational pull is thus reorganizing the supercontinent and the wider world*”

“We did not in fact had five centuries of Western dominance, according to Diesen: it was more like three, or even two (see, for instance, the work of Andre Gunder Frank). In a historical Long View that barely registers.”

“What is indeed The Big Picture now is that ‘the unique world order produced by controlling’ the vast Eurasian continent from the maritime periphery is coming to an end.”

Will the Hegemon Ever Accept a New Westphalian World Order?

The following piece is by Vijay Prashad stressing four major conceptual engines driving the New World System :

* Sovereignty

* New Modernization (new economic & industrial networks and spaces)

* Multilateralism & Regionalization

* Reparations

Hyper-Imperialism

Finally, Professor Jan Oberg on NATO collapsing like the Soviet Union because of the same mistakes :

If the link below doesn’t work, you can find the video at “Thinkers Forum’ Jan Oberg : NATO is collapsing like the Soviet Union”