Global Tensions, Multipolarity and Power Blocs in a New Phase of the Crisis of World Order. Prospects for Latin America

  • Gabriel Esteban Merino Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la Argentina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/GEOP.51951
Keywords: capitalist crisis, historical transition, power blocks, relative multipolarity, Latin America.

Abstract

We are facing a new phase of the crisis of the world order, whose main characteristic is the direct political and major territories confrontation between blocks of central power of “global North” and the emerging power blocks, deepening on the situation of relative multipolarity. This new situation, which can place since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, is presented briefly in this paper based on the following points: 1) the problem statement (what is at stake in Ukraine) in relation to the crisis in order world; 2) the strategic axis Moscow-Beijing, the BRICS and the confrontation with “the West”; 3) “West” and their positions: the strategic differences in the US and contradictions with the euro core (Germany-France); 4) the impact and challenges of Latin America as a bloc of emerging power.

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Gabriel Esteban Merino, Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la Argentina

Doctor en Ciencias Sociales y Lic. en Sociología. Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Socio Históricas (CISH) y del Centro de Investigaciones Geográficas (CIG), pertenecientes al Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (IdIHCS), de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), CCT CONICET. Profesor de la UNLP en la cátedra “Identidad, Estado y Sociedad en Argentina” y en la cátedra “Geografía de la Región Ártica, Estados Unidos y Canadá”. Profesor invitado en la cátedra Administración del Estado y Políticas Públicas de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.

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Published
2016-11-07
How to Cite
Merino G. E. (2016). Global Tensions, Multipolarity and Power Blocs in a New Phase of the Crisis of World Order. Prospects for Latin America. Geopolítica(s). Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder, 7(2), 201-225. https://doi.org/10.5209/GEOP.51951
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016)
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