![]() Currently Ukraine, where Putin’s Russia started its revolt against the Western-led world order, is bearing the brunt of these changes. In conjunction with the growing institutional contradictions emerging in the U.S.-led world system, these decisions set in motion the avalanche of destructive events in Europe, as well as some promising developments in Asia and Latin America. What we are witnessing today is the result of decisions made by contemporary political, economic, and cultural leaders during the recent twelve to twenty months. The last time the world experienced an equally deep caesura was probably in 1989–1991, when the Eastern bloc, the USSR, and the global socialist bloc dissolved and the Greater Europe project, comprising territories from Dublin to Vladivostok, had a chance to come to fruition. The period we are living through is a historical caesura, a stage that puts the previous long-term process on pause and opens up chances for continuous processes, global or regional. Possible outcomes range from the creation of a new world system with new international political, economic, and security relations to fragmentation of the current system into several small “worlds” and regional blocs. Where it might take us is an open question. We are living through a period of radical change.
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