THE AGE OF WARS: CAPITAL-IMPERIALISM IN CRISIS AND THE NEW MULTIPOLARITY

Abstract

The dual American battlefront has highlighted the historical process of the meteoric rise of the American peace, forged by the creation of the un system and the Bretton Woods Agreements. This historical process of the rise and decline of the American empire allows us to observe the transition from a particular type of soft power to a particular type of hard power, which inserts into the global political agenda a particular type of complex and umbilical social relationship, established between neoliberalism and neofascism, in such a way as to forge political, economic, and sociocultural methods for constructing permanent, preventive counterrevolutions on a global scale. In this new scenario, the NATO system supersedes the un system and assumes centrality, as political processes are decided by military intimidation and/or force of arms, creating an environment of widespread arms racing and escalating proxy conflicts, through vassalization and predation of allies. This would be a scenario of total war and/or civil war, in which the logic of the Schmittian enemy prevails, as the social phenomenon of ethnoidentitarianism is driven by the essentialization of the internal and/or external other to be exterminated. In a historical quadrant of globalization, the escalation of conflicts and arms races move and intensify on a global scale, both in physical space and in cyberspace. Objectively, the ideology of a rules-based international order has collapsed, as a multipolar international order has been imposed, with the rise of China and Russia; and, therefore, the shift of global power from the North Atlantic to Eurasia.