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Rob Dubya's avatar

I'm currently reading The Theory of a Multipolar World. He's a bit of a giant, old dugin, and while I'm smart enough to read the long words I'm not smart enough to fully understand everything that he discusses at first pass. It's also quite a tough bedtime read, so I might stick to rereading Rape of the Mind at bedtime and Dugin in the morning.

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“After the collapse of one of the two poles (the fall of the USSR in 1991), the bipolar system ended. This produced the preconditions for the emergence of an alternative world order. Many analysts and specialists in IR correctly started to speak about the “end of the Yalta system.”8

Recognizing de jure sovereignty, de facto the Yalta world was built on the principle of the balance of two symmetrical and relatively balanced hegemons. With the exit from the historical arena of one of the hegemons, the entire system ceased to exist. The time of the unipolar world order, or “unipolar moment,” had come.9

The multipolar world is not a bipolar world (as we knew it in the second half of the 20th century), since today there is no power able by itself to strategically oppose the might of the US and the NATO countries, and, moreover, no general and clear ideology capable of rallying a significant part of humanity to strict ideational opposition against the ideology of liberal democracy, capitalism, and “human rights,” on which the new, this time sole hegemony of the US rests. Neither contemporary Russia, nor China, nor India, nor any other state can[…]”

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The Theory of a Multipolar World

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