It is now fashionable to describe our era as post-Western, or even post-American. The problem is not that these expressions are wrong, but that they focus on what is being replaced rather than what is being replaced. I plead guilty too. A few years ago, a publisher titled one of my books “The Future is Asianâ€. A bold decision that aroused my enthusiasm. With the exception of one small detail, I repeated it: “The present is already Asian for the majority of humanity.â€
It is particularly difficult to find the right term to describe the world we live in, because we are fixated on the notion of order. Under the influence of Western international relations theory and the conventions of foreign policy specialists, we are constantly searching for the rules and institutions that define the emerging world or international order.
However, nothing in the intrinsic nature of history or geopolitics requires that there be a fixed and established order. Geopolitics is a science, not a popularity contest to know who will be secretary general of NATO or the United Nations. It analyzes the dynamics
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Foreign Policy (Washington)
Founded in 1970 with the aim of “stimulate debate on essential questions of American foreign policy†, Foreign Policy was a university journal for a long time before becoming a bimonthly in 2000. Its ambition today: to be the first “magazine on politics, economics and international ideas†. Managed since November 2020 by Ravi Agrawal, the title belongs to the Graham Holdings Company which also owns the site Slate. Foreign Policy launched several foreign editions in the early 2000s, in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America and in 2009, completely transformed its website. ForeignPolicy.com aims to be the first online daily covering questions of foreign policy and national security. In addition to the investigations and journalistic reports, there are numerous contributions from experts in international relations, with very varied political orientations.
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