Geopolitics

This note is an announcement.  In the current month of July a book of mine will become available.  Its title is Strategic Impasse and it offers my own views of the present state of geopolitics, some of which I have presented in Opinion Sur.  Here is a brief description and ten theses, which I hope will prompt critical thought.

The demise of liberal democracy has given rise to political regimes that some people equate with fascism.  The phenomenon is not classic fascism, but fiasco: fitful authoritarianism tempered by incompetence.

Faced with a general but inorganic unrest, democratic political systems are crumbling in many countries, resulting in authoritarian and improvised governments. The real change is taking place locally and will be enhanced by the macro-crises that are approaching.

True democracy is in full setback; sometimes in broad daylight, others almost without us realizing it. It is threatened from the top by despotic and corrupt governments (most of them elected) and from the bottom by a distracted and uninformed population. It is time to wake up and fight from civil society and from suitable institutions that are still standing.

If presents trends continue, Europe will become, as Spain once was according to Ortega, a geopolitical invertebrate: an animal lacking a backbone, like a big mollusk.