The West has fatally overestimated itself. What does this mean for Germany and the world?
The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine – just months after the USA had suffered a foreign policy debacle in Afghanistan. And China, the West’s rival in the battle for system superiority, has long since become a decisive superpower. Yet the triumph of the West had seemed unstoppable not that long ago. After the end of the Cold War, the democratic market economy took hold in the former Eastern Bloc, Russia went from being an enemy to a partner, and even China turned to capitalism. Then came the big turning point: The terrorist attacks of 9/11 shook the West, the American “War on Terror” destabilized an entire region of the world, the “Arab Spring” only brought forth new autocracies, and, the confrontation with Russia intensified. Instead of a liberal world order, a new world disorder has emerged.
Peter R. Neumann, an internationally acclaimed expert on terrorism and geopolitics, shows how this transpired and what must happen now. An unsparing analysis of the current situation of the West, which has fatally overestimated itself.
"A far-sighted analysis of the world order - and an urgent warning of what the future may bring." Peter Frankopan
