Strategy&Future

Albert Świdziński talks to professor Hugh White on Guam Doctrine Redux. What is Trump's strategy for Europe and Asia? Professor Hugh White (AO FASSA) is an Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, long-time defence and intelligence analyst, and author who has published works on military strategy and international relations.

It may sound like a paradox but the primary beneficiaries of the multipolar world are the countries of the Global South. The Central Asian republics and many other former colonial states (including those states who suffered due to neocolonialism) have finally found the panacea, which is multipolarity.

For a long time, the Turkic World formed a continuous historical and cultural space from China to Europe without the capacity to be a real geopolitical player in Eurasia, but under the leadership of Turkey, the Turkic World is today shaping a new geopolitical reality in Eurasia.

Jacek Bartosiak and Albert Świdziński talk to Jacob Shapiro on the unfolding global geopolitical turmoil and disruptions of supply chains.

The Last 21 Years: Year (2)018

We can no longer be sure that the United States and China will be able to manage their bilateral relations based on a rational calculation of their own national interests, or even want their relationship to be based on mutual benefit. Lee Hsien Loong, Foreign Affairs, July 2020.

The continued growth of China’s power raises a fundamental question: what next, especially in the longer term? What exactly will China’s growth mean for the future of the region and the world? Will China and the US become open enemies, or will they come to an agreement? Unfortunately, history teaches that competition in the race for economic hegemony turns into fierce strategic competition, and this very often into a war for domination.

On 4th January 2010, the Burj Khalifa opened in Dubai. At 828 metres, it was the world’s tallest building. In fact, all of the world’s seven-tallest buildings were now located in Asia: Taipei 101 (508 metres, 2004); World Financial Center, Shanghai (492 metres, 2008); International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong (484 metres, 2010); Petronas Towers 1 and 2, Kuala Lumpur (452 metres, 1998); and Zifeng Tower, Nanjing (450 metres, 2010). “We are entering a completely new era of world history,” said Kishore Mahbubani at a lecture at the St. Gallen Symposium. “You’re seeing the end of what I call Western domination of world history but I hasten to add that the end of Western domination of world history is not the end of the West.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Parag Khanna on the future of the world, patterns of globalization, and consolidation of Eurasia as a system; and on Europe being part of it.

Between 1989 and 1991, the strategic map of Eurasia altered dramatically as broad swathes of territory reopened to international markets after a long period of enclosure behind communist walls. Demand for conventional military forces declined as NATO’s front-line confrontation with the countries of the Warsaw Pact disappeared. The two largest nuclear powers – the United States and the Russian Federation – could agree that they possessed superfluous nuclear weapons.