Suchergebnisse

The Covid crisis as a state of siege -- Can the world population still be kept under control? -- Restructuring the ruling class in the IT revolution -- The virus scenario as the basis for a seizure of power -- Biological warfare with or against China? -- The 'pandemic' as disaster capitalism -- Radical democracy and digital planning.

From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pursuit of their particular interests. Since 2008, the European Commission has actively joined the quest for ""strategic autonomy"" within NATO. The elections of Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron in 2016-17 further widened the Atlantic rift, while the COVID-19 crisis with its colossal economic costs has, in turn, exacerbated the already worsening geopol

Tribal foreign relations and mythical ancestry -- Sedentary-nomad encounters in Semitic myth and religion -- Warrior heroes in the Indo-European lineage -- Imperial cosmologies and the nomad counterpoint -- Rival fundamentalisms on the imperial frontier

Fractures and faultlines in the global political economy -- Integration and rivalry in Europe and the Middle East -- America's crusade in Asia and the Euro-Atlantic rift -- The spectre of social and economic democracy -- Transnational rivalries and the neoliberal turn -- From Pinochet to the Reagan doctrine -- The Rapallo Syndrome and the demise of the Soviet Union -- America over Europe in the Balkans crisis -- The rise of China as the new contender -- Energy conflicts in the post-Soviet era -- From human rights to the global state of emergency