The assumption of globalism, that these interests could – and should – be overridden by the illusion of an “international community” of selfless and altruistic brotherly love in which we are all our brother’s keepers, was always a faulty one. Africa can – and should – rebuild her own civilizations as a pole of the emerging world order, just like Asia has done. And Asia did not seek anyone’s permission to do so
UNITED States Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a conciliatory but nevertheless firm speech at the Munich Security Conference that seeks to revalidate the US-Europe “special relationship”. But, listening closely, he makes clear that the underlying agenda has shifted from globalist assumptions to what can be termed a “rebuilding”of Western civilization.
Whatever your view, the reconstruction of the pre-existing world order by President Donald Trump is the most important shift in the foundations of international relations since the collapse of communism in the late 1980s. But it also revalidates the rationalist-realist English School theory of international relations that holds that we live in an “anarchical society” of states that collaborate but also contend with each other on the basis of each state’s strategic national interests.
The assumption of globalism, that these interests could – and should – be overridden by the illusion of an “international community” of selfless and altruistic brotherly love in which we are all our brother’s keepers, was always a faulty one. Africa can – and should – rebuild her own civilizations as a pole of the emerging world order, just like Asia has done. And Asia did not seek anyone’s permission to do so.
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