Friday, April 28, 2023

The Global Conference on Multipolarity

Today the fate of humanity is being decided. The unipolar architecture of the world is giving way to a new alternative model of world order. It is commonly referred to as "multipolarity". Acknowledgement of a multipolar world order is stated explicitly in official documents and strategic declarations of such countries as China, Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua. India, as well as many Islamic countries - Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and, more recently, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - are increasingly inclined to do the same. Multipolarity is enthusiastically supported by most countries in Latin America and Africa.

In western countries, in the US and EU, while the elites are generally disposed to preserve the unipolarity of the 1990s and maintain hegemony (and this is called globalism), there are more and more movements, organizations and public figures who also stand for a multipolar world order, where the western civilization will certainly find its rightful place.

The multipolarity is built on the recognition of the equal right of all peoples and cultures to go their own way, to build their own socio-political, economic and cultural systems. And liberal ideologists with their formal call for decolonization and democratization of international relations should only like this. However, in reality their attitude is exactly the opposite. Globalists and supporters of the liberal New World Order categorically reject multipolarity, continuing to insist that only the liberal elites themselves have a monopoly on the ultimate truth. They pretend to have “the right” to establish international norms and rules, to implement their own epistemogiess and principles, to assign in any conflict who is right or wrong, aggressor or victim. Western elites are not going to give up a unipolar world order, appeared for time being in the early 90-s of XX century and called - somewhat hastily – “the end of history” (F.Fukuyama). And in multipolarity they see the main danger for themselves: after all, history will continue, and each civilization will have the opportunity to fully develop its potential.

To launch the debate on multipolarity on a global scale, collective of intellectuals from Latin America (Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, Colombia, Argentina, etc.) took the initiative to hold a Global Conference on Multipolarity online. It was enthusiastically embraced by bright intellectuals from Europe, Russia, China, India, the Islamic world, the United States, Africa and Asia.

The first session of the Global Conference on Multipolarity will be held on April 29 and last the whole day featuring prominent intellectuals, politicians, diplomats from 6 continents and more than 50 countries of the world.