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Bobo Lo: "Putin sees compromise as the prerogative of the weak and the defeated"

2022-09-08T18:00:44.069Z


INTERVIEW - On the sidelines of the sixth International Conference in Tbilisi, co-organized by the European Center for economic policy, the John McCain Institute and the George W Bush institute, this foreign policy specialist looks back on the great disorders of a world that is is "disuniversalized".


LE FIGARO: In 1989-1991, we thought we had turned a decisive page.

But the East-West confrontation with Russia has resumed in the context of the 21st century, with all the instruments of our global era… How do you see the global geopolitical scene?

Bobo LO

: We are living in what I call a new world disorder.

The post-1945 liberal world order, based on the rules of the game, began to crumble already at least fifteen years ago, with the invasion of Iraq by the United States.

But no multipolar alternative order is emerging to supplant it.

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In this new disorder, we are witnessing a disuniversalization of standards of conduct.

We no longer know what the rules are, who creates them and to whom they apply.

I would say that contrary to what is repeated, we have not returned to the era of competition between great powers.

Great powers have never been so weak.

The world remains hyper-globalized, but nevertheless increasingly fragmented.

Is not it…

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