Charting The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order
Philip Pilkington is an unorthodox macroeconomist.
Andrew Collingwood is an equally skeptical journalist.
Lately, both have realised that - post-Ukraine, post-Afghanistan withdrawal - the old, unipolar, US-led world order is in its death throes.
In its wake, something new is being born. But what shape will that take? That will depend on a combustible combination of economics and geopolitics; trade and military muscle.
Each week, our duo take three off-radar news stories and explain how each is shaping our multipolar reality.
From Marco Polo to Marco Rubio – the West keeps rediscovering that China is a big Asian landmass with a mind of its own. So is Trump’s hawkish new Secretary of State about to get himself tangled in a Chinese finger trap of tariffs?
Meanwhile, back on the Europe thing, Multipolarity’s pet...
Published 11/14/24
At the centre of the Global American empire, a storm is coming. But it’s in the European periphery that the effects will be the most acute.
Can anyone steer a path through the rocks?
We’ll be looking at chaos in the German auto industry - as Volkswagen overruns its cost budget by 20 per...
Published 11/06/24