With the addition of regional powers such as India, Japan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran, among others, global geopolitics is decided in the realist world and the balance of power among these countries defines international relations. Nothing and nobody can impose a military defeat or coerce a political choice on global superpowers. in the Pacific and Europe is increasing its defense spending. China and the European Union are already economic superpowers. In it, only two global superpowers, the United States and Russia, have the capacity to annihilate the world many times over. The only players that count are states, or to be more specific, the great powers and the mindset of their leaders who command their military and economic might.ĭespite the underlying notion of anarchy, the realist world is orderly and simplistic. The United Nations and other multilateral institutions matter little and change nothing. In an anarchic world, the survival of states is always under threat, requiring the acquisition of as much power as possible. Anarchy means that there is no higher authority that ultimately decides conflicts among states. The system is defined by anarchy, the opposite of hierarchy. Realists believe that the defining factors of international relations are states, their leaders and the system. Will it bring back the era of great power conflict as predicted by “realists” of international relations theory? Will globalization led by multinational institutions still prevail despite the great tragedy taking place right now in Ukraine? Who are the main actors and forces that will decide this outcome? The realist world Now the questions are whether this period was an anomaly and what the “new normal” will be in the coming age. The normalcy of the last three decades of post-Cold War globalization is gone. Transformative forces in the world will shape and define the “new normal”.“Realists” and “liberals” disagree on the main issues driving geopolitics.
A new era of conflict among great powers will likely last for a long time.
0 kommentar(er)
