Towards the Birth of New Alliances?

The international order inherited from the Second World War, based on Western hegemony and American leadership, is being eroded. The world is shifting towards a resolutely multipolar configuration: China is increasing its economic, technological, and diplomatic influence; India is gradually asserting its strategic stature; Russia, although marginalized, retains a power of nuisance and a capacity for influence, in particular within the global South.

In this unstable context, the transatlantic alliance shows signs of fragility. The gradual disengagement of the United States from Europe is evident, in favor of a strategic refocusing on the Indo-Pacific, as part of their growing rivalry with China. At the same time, the powers of the South, first among them the BRICS, are organizing themselves and promoting alternative institutions to the architectures dominated by the West.

Beyond geopolitical interests alone, a clash of governance models is taking shape, opposing liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes in a battle for global normative influence.

From then on, a crucial question arises: what will be the alliances of tomorrow? In a fragmented and interdependent world, how to build new partnerships that are sustainable, balanced and prosperous?

At a time when “happy” globalization seems a distant memory, when the use of force or the balance of power is becoming the norm, and when ‘global’ environmental and social challenges are imposing themselves with brutality, will we be able to “make planet”?