Power and World Order

It will come about through the action and reaction of international actors—a pure dialectical manifestation of their interactions (I am using a Hegelian category, not a Marxist one, as those who do not read anything mistakenly believe)—in the face of the overlapping paradigms that tend to change the aforementioned World Order.

For example, the invention of writing, which put an end to a long initial stage of human evolution dominated first by matriarchy and almost immediately afterwards by nomadism; the invention of the wheel, which gave way to cyclopean constructions and remarkable land mobilisations, facilitating conquests; the assertion that the Earth was round, which buried Ptolemy's thesis that it was flat, precipitating voyages of circumnavigation; natural law, which brought down the entire political and social construct of divine right that dominated much of Europe during the Middle Ages, replacing the sovereign monarch with the sovereign people, which has been the greatest political and social revolution in universal history; or, to put it briefly, the extraordinary development of technology and the world of cyberspace, which continues unabated, changing the course of life and the behaviour of societies, as is the case with artificial intelligence - AI is the newest paradigm, the scale of which, to be understood, we must still assume to be in its initial stages - a kind of Stone Age in the 21st century - because what is coming for the world, which I will surely not be around to see, will even cause fear in the human species—and all of the above, without the inevitable and inexorable course of warfare, as has happened at other times in the history of international society—look and confirm for yourself, dear reader, the classification by the four ages that scholars of universal history have made and that we learned in our school days—the consequence of which has been the possession of power in the world above all else.

Am I saying that the New World Order will be the result of a dialectical process (war) as in the past? Answer: YES, and I say it in capital letters so that it sinks in. When that happens, power will be administered by those who are victorious, and no one without power will have a say. Did or did not Spain and Portugal end up dividing the world between them at the end of the 15th century through the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Did it or did it not happen with the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, whose leaders, meeting in Yalta, Crimea (the Ukrainian peninsula now in Russian hands), practically at the end of World War II, in 1945, planned to create the United Nations and its Security Council, in which they decided to integrate them as permanent members, dividing up the cake of world power?

World events cannot be explained or resolved solely on the basis of international law. Let's not be naive. Although the global trend is towards a multipolar world, it is true that the US wants world power, without sharing it, and that explains Trump's strategic moves on Venezuela.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Mackay, former Foreign Minister of Peru and Internationalist