The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order

Excellent book. Very informative.

Adoro o Glenn Diesen das redes sociais e o livro sobre a nova ordem mundial é excelente, bem escrito em inglês e bem explicado. Foi uma optima compra. Muito obrigado.

Sehr gut und ausführlich recherchiert und voller Primärquellen, die die Vorgeschichte des Konflikts und seine strategische Relevanz für alle beteiligten Parteien bis in die 90er Jahre nachvollziehbar machen.

This is a superb book and one that should be read by anyone wanting to understand how the events in Ukraine are reshaping the world order. In it, Glenn Diesen, a professor at the University of South-eastern Norway and a specialist on Russia’s growing tilt away from the West and towards Asia, explains in layman’s terms the enormous shift in global power the conflict has initiated. Taking as his starting point the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, across eleven chapters and 300-odd pages, Diesen concisely, yet comprehensively, explains how the West came to dominate the world order, why that 500-year-old hegemonic position is now under threat and how Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine is accelerating the move towards a multipolar world. I really can’t recommend this book enough and, whatever your opinion on what’s happening in Ukraine, you’ll come away from a few hours spent reading this with a level of understanding of the geo-political realities of the conflict that you won’t read, see or hear in the mainstream Western media who, acting largely as mere propagandists for the Western Liberal elites, appear to be ‘mushrooming’ their populations on a previously unheard of scale. Please do read it to better understand how and why we became embroiled in this escalating conflict which appears, on the surface at least, to have little to do with us but is, essentially, existential and could quite easily lead to the end of everything.

It took me a while to decide to buy this book. Being retired, I’ve had plenty of time to hunt down good sources of news and analysis. I’ve seen Glenn Diesen on numerous panels and interviews. I generally agree with his analysis, and wasn’t sure how much I would learn from his book. Also, you can read the first two chapters simply by hitting “Read Sample.” However, after examining his “Contents” page, I decided to buy the book. I figured that his chapters 3-6, which describe the rise and decline of the Western Centric world order, might provide a lot of interesting detail and evidence that put current events into an historical context. I was also curious to read his chapters 10-11 to see what he might posit as a path forward. I wasn’t disappointed, and am glad I bought the book. Incidentally, his bibliography of thirty pages is quite impressive. And I was glad to see that he referenced Halford Mackinder’s short article (23 pages) titled “The Geographical Pivot of History” published in 1904 in “The Geographical Journal 170, no. 4.” Something of a landmark article that seems to have predicted the future.