Gabriel Elefteriu
As the geometry of international relations alters under the shockwaves emanating from the White House, old assumptions about alliances begin to fray. Like a kind of geopolitical glue, it has been US power that has held the global security system together in the broad form we have known it since 1945.
This has been a world order dominated by a US-led Western Alliance, with the “enemy’s” part played at first by the Soviet Union and now by China — with a brief Fukuyaman interlude of unipolarity after the Cold War.
The deliberate and accelerated disengagement of the US from this model — i.e. the transition to substantive multipolarity — will require a fundamental recalibration of security concepts and strategies across the West, almost from first principles.
There is no substitute for the American power we have known until now.
As such, great chunks of what today passes for our “strategic culture” are rapidly becoming obsolete. Not that those most invested in the current intellectual milieu and who take their talking points from the national security officialdom even recognise it.
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