Is the West facing the end of its global dominance?
Journalist and Middle East expert Karin Leukefeld lays out a picture of world politics that looks past the daily headlines to the deeper shifts underneath them. This isn’t about isolated conflicts — it’s about what she sees as the slow erosion of US hegemony and the emergence of a new, multipolar world order.
Leukefeld walks through the volatile situation across the Near and Middle East — from the military escalations in Lebanon and Gaza to Iran’s growing role as an independent power in the region. She takes a critical look at the United States and the EU, arguing that their imperial ambitions often clash with the stability international law is supposed to guarantee.
Her sharpest points land on the economic and geostrategic fault lines reshaping the map: What does the rise of the BRICS bloc mean for Europe? How are China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the global scramble for oil and gas resources redrawing the balance of power? Leukefeld argues that Germany and the EU, through their current policies, risk being left behind by these new realities.
Her analysis is a call to see geopolitical developments as a whole — and to question the costs of Western double standards.
Whatever your own politics, the perspective of an expert who has reported from the region for decades offers essential grounding for a serious debate.
“We have to understand that the world no longer revolves solely around the West — and that ignoring these new realities comes at a high price.”
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