Memoria y Civilización (Nov 2005)
La configuración del nuevo orden internacional, 1989-2005
Abstract
A number of hypotheses have emerged to account for the change in the state of the world marked by the tragic attacks carried out on September 11th 2001. One position argues that this new phase in international politics has its roots in the years 1989–1990, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union; another school of thought holds that events which have taken place since the attacks fall within a political framework that has been in existence since 1997–1998, articulated primarily in the "Project for a New American Century", a document written by a group of neo-conservative thinkers. (This latter argument does not necessarily connote any suggestion of a conspiracy theory.) Discussion centers on the causes of the current tension in international relations and the main risks or threats to western civilization: the actions of monopoly interests in oil production; the conflict of interests between the United States and Russia at a geopolitical level; and, above all, China's intentions with respect to Asia as a whole.
