Geopolitics’ past and future: negation of the negation

In a radically changed world, geopolitical costs and errors as a result of underestimation or, conversely, overestimation of increasingly non-linear hybrid processes, conflicting trends and often spontaneous events acquire increased practical and political significance. Under these conditions, the focus of research attention could not but be on the recently published work of French researchers and international experts under the catchy and meaningful title “The world will never be the same”. In the focus of the analysis is the updated context of modern crisis geopolitics. The conceptual and analytical basis of the text is formed by extensive introductory and at the same time generalizing sections that systematize two dozen chapters on a variety of international topics and problems. They were written by the co-leaders of the team of authors, well-known French international political researchers Bertrand Bady and Dominique Vidal. A new approach is put at the forefront, which is not predetermined in advance, but is created on the basis of life practice as a result and under the influence of historical surprises, unforeseen and even previously unimaginable events. An attempt was made to consider the problems of the future world order through the prism of great-power contradictions, the confrontation of various value orientations and development models with an emphasis on the competition of democracies and autocracies. On the example of the United States, the concept of world domination is rethought. The book reflects new features of the expert-analytical work of French international researchers. The authors are aware that the confrontational severity of the crisis situation in Ukraine and its internationalization in a variety of hybridized forms have sharply “shaken” the more or less established balance of power not only in the European region, but throughout the global space. In general, they agree that optimistic options for a new world order are at stake. In separate sections of the book, the chaos of world politics and international relations is linked to the overstrain of the US hyperpower, which is approaching a critical point.

geopolitics, Strategic Security, new world order, USA, EU, France, Russia