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BRICS WORLD LEADERSHIP? WAIT A MINUTE.
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Six new countries will join BRICS (Brazil,Russia,India,China,South Africa) from 2024/1/1, i.e. Argentina,Egypt,Ethiopia,Iran,Saudi Arabia, Emirates, and everyone is very impressed, growing total GDP from 25% to 36% of total world and being population about 4 billion, versus 800 million of G7, which produces about 46% of world GDP (105 trillion$). By the way I know personally […] Read more

GLOBAL SOUTH AFRICA
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
My personal relationship with South Africa has been of well being and peace, as soon I disembarked from the plane in Johannesburg at the middle of 80ties, having my clock the same time of Milan, and the same day. The special light, the dry climate always spring type, the flowers, the immensity of horizons, the […] Read more

KISSINGER – FUKUYAMA 5-0? NOT FAIR
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
I remember the climate of 1992, end of SSSR in 1989, Western triumph, American hegemony not discussed, peace dividend, stop to weapon and so on. As for an instant book, Francis Fukuyama at age of 40, wrote a nice academic book with a fascinating title “The end of history and the last man”, suddenly becoming […] Read more

CHINA-USA :A BICEPHALIC GLOBALISATION?
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Historically we had until now two wave of globalisation: In the last ten years everyone is expecting a third wave of globalisation China driven, the opposition should come from USA and ,from the Cuba war, Americans had always used war as a political strategy to keep on their hegemony. So the most probable USA reaction […] Read more

“STANS” GEOPOLITICAL ROLE AS A STRATEGIC KEY
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Walking through the streets of Xian you walk in true historical context, as we European immagine about China. Enormous walls surrounding the big squared city, large like modern highways, very Chinese traditional urban structure, similar by the way to old Roman one, impressive stone doors with monster guardians, in a region of majestic king tombs, […] Read more

Myanmar Chinese strategic door
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Of all my world travels, never I was so relaxed, quiet and near to full happiness then travelling in Myanmar. The thousands of gold painted pagodas, already welcoming you from the plane view, the magnificent river Irrawaddy, flowing as a majestic aristocrat through a spectacular nature for 2200km full of ships, the romantic lakes, everything […] Read more

BERLIN INVISIBLE WALL
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Alexander Platz, the Alfred Doeblin observatory of its unforgettable 1930 novel Berliner Alexander Platz, representing the never sleeping city of those times and a lot of small characters of Berlin life, it’s now a hub of poor immigrants and dropouts, moving in the night around the Soviet tower, and the near Karl Marx Allee with […] Read more

4 Scenarios for Baltics
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Baltic States are on the front of this tragic European war and the internal debate is very hot, so as the discrimination of the important Russian speaking minorities present on these territories and the immigration flows from Ukraine. But most important should be to create team working of their best minds to think how to […] Read more

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: BREAKDOWN OR EURASIAN BRIDGE
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Russian Federation, 17million square km (1,7 times USA), about 140 million inhabitants, is the largest State in the world, even after the dissolution of Soviet Union, which was quite bigger with 22 million square km and 286 million of inhabitants. Today the Federation has 21 states, versus 42 in SSSR, and being so large, with […] Read more

EURAFRICA OR AFREUROPE ?
Posted by: Massimo Merlino in geopolitic
Geopolitic proposed the Eurafrica concepts in the 20ties of last century, mainly through Germany’s geographer Haushofer, and French and English scientists. In Italy from the main geopolitical school of Trieste, Ernesto Massi and others. The basic idea was that America and Asia were markets for European export, but the best situation of complementarity between two […] Read more