Endgame of the Long Cold War

... even of Afro-Asian powers is enhanced, rather than inhibited or retarded by a Eurasian ‘core-state counterweight’ to the West and the space provided by such a bipolar balance. The Bandung Conference of 1955 which marked the conception of nonalignment,... ... move from the extensive to the intensive and make the leap from the quantitative to the qualitative. US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanaghan’s demarcation of the present struggle as between the “free and repressive world orders” leaves the Eurasian core states exposed to a neoliberal globalist discourse, without a competing ideology or narrative ...