How globalization marked the return of power and strength

Le Regard Libre N° 62 - Clément Guntern

For over twenty years, history seemed to have come to a standstill. States were trying to comply with international and supranational regulations that went against their very nature. But globalization has come and gone, and power is once again a necessity in a new world.

We have likely just emerged from a parenthesis in human history. Perhaps a happy one, but one that will certainly leave a sense of unfinished business for those who worked to bring it about. For some twenty years, we thought we had stepped out of history and escaped the vicissitudes of state life: war had been regulated, democracy was triumphing almost everywhere, and the market economy was unifying the world. Even the states that, for millennia, had waged wars, carried out conquests, and launched crusades, found themselves restrained by p