A New Global Geometry?

In October 2022 US President Joe Biden launched the new National Security Strategy, which warned that the world was at an “inflection point,” in which the “post-Cold War era is definitively over, and a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next”. American leadership, the document declared, would be more necessary than ever to define “the future of the international order” by marshalling America’s unparalleled economic, military, and diplomatic resources to confront geopolitical rivals.

While it is clearly premature to speak of the end of the liberal economic order, let alone the development of a multipolar international system, lit is not too early to take stock of how these momentous changes, even if not spelling the end of globalization, might alter its historical trajectory, or point toward a new global geometry. And, from there to assess potential vulnerabilities and resistances from socialist movements with their historical demands for a democratic and equalizing world order.