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Which direction to take today?
Nowadays, the Eurasian thought is in full retreat in the Balkans. It was overpowered by liberalism and profanization. Although it is perfectly obvious that isolated, individual cultures cannot survive in the Balkans, Balkan politicians, lured by the West, do nothing to bond the Balkan nations.
The western part of the Balkans, inhabited by the Croats, is lost beyond the possibility of restoration. Its return to Eurasia cannot be expected. Islamic Balkan nations, in accordance with their Pan-Turanian tendencies and the growing Turkish geopolitical interference on the peninsula, remain in essence Eurasian, but they are to a large degree controlled by the United States of America that, pursuing its own interests, gave them two new Balkan states — Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
The Republic of Srpska, the only Eurasian oasis on the west bank of the Drina, is crucial to the survival of Eurasia in these areas. If we add the fact that the West, by creating independent Montenegro, separated Serbia from the Adriatic Sea, the need to preserve the Republic of Srpska gains on signiicance even more.
«After WWII, in the second half of the 20th century, the Balkans faced additional problems. The integration of Europe on one hand and world globalization on the other clashed violently in the Balkans. The end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century brought a new collision of interests of these great powers, and the interests of the USA have signiicantly increased when compared to the previous historical background. We could say that the Balkans was devastated by theactivities of thevictorious industrial West striving to re-organize it to meet the interests of the USA and some new centres of power18.
However, in its culture, logic, politics, ethics, in a word — its spirituality, the Balkans has no contradictions. It neither belongs to Europe, as (according to the Roman model) the Roman Catholics would have it, nor does it belong to the Orient (at least not to the
degree that the Balkan Muslims would have it). It belongs to itself and to those who do not think of its truth as a burden that has to be removed.
Orthodox Balkan nations are those that created the Balkans, that cannot survive without it and that are therefore obliged to protect it. These nations, owing to the Byzantine Empire, even in their earliest history showed a great affection for the Orthodox Orient and its culture, the affection that will not disappear even when, instead the scent of incense, heath and desert winds bring Islam. As in Russia, in the Balkans the children of the forest met the children of the heath, creating a unique cultural unit of Eurasian type.
Therefore, regardless of the current policy, the Balkan Orthodox nations are completely directed towards each other. This fact is conirmed by their culture, their pattern, their songs and dances, and their history that clearly shows that everything beneicial the Balkan nations did for themselves was done by joint forces.
Talking about cultural and political potential of the Balkans, Tadeusz Zielinski, a philologist and professor at Warsaw University, stressed that this peninsula would be the pillar of «the fourth European renaissance», that Zielinski calls «Slavic».
Zielinski thought that the Slavic nations that live in the Antique (Balkan) area, supported by the great Russia, would continue the trends of the Caroline, Roman and German renaissance in Europe.
While the irst renaissance was religious, the second and the third national, the fourth would, according to Zielinski, be spiritual, ethical, and in its essence it would be a unity of variations.
Such renaissance can only be designed by the Western mechanicistic world. Its only condition of survival is the collision with the Eurasian spirituality. Zielinski thought that if the West discarded and rejected such alliance, new trenches would be dugbetween the East and the West and they would be virtually insurmountable.
Having all this in mind, now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is upon the Balkans to inally decide whether it will be «Europe's landill site», as it is frequently called in the West, or the advance guard of the Great Eurasia.
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Balkan i Balkanci, Beograd: Balkanskiinstitut, 1937
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Dorovic, Vladimir. Borba za nezavisnost Balkana, Beograd:
Balkanskiinstitut, 1937
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Knjiga o Balkanu,Tom prvi, Beograd: Balkanski institut, 1936
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Knjiga o Balkanu, Tom drugi, Beograd: Balkanski institut, 1937
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Leontjev, Konstantin. Istok, Rusija i slovnstvo, Beograd: 1999
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Srpska slobodarska misao, casopis za filozofiju, drustvene nauke i politicku kritiku, broj 40, Beograd: 2006
NEW GLOBAL ACTORS FOR A MULTIPOLAR WORLD
Daniele Lazzeri
Chairman of the think tank «Il Nodo di Gordio», scientiic Director of the Research Center «Vox Populi» (Italy)
The rapid political, economic and financial decline of the United States of America, has triggered a new multilateral era.
The American has been a kind of Roman Empire, passed directly from barbarism to decadence.
New and important global and regional players, in fact, put an end to the excess of power of the unilateral policy «strip and star.»
In particular, the Chinese giant who, holding more than one third of U.S. public debt, is emerging as a privileged and compulsory interlocutor for the United States.
At the same time, the tsunami of global inance, the weakness of the U.S. economy and the risk of a collapse of public debt and the dollar, pose a serious problem for Beijing too, putting at risk the currency reserves accumulated over time by China.
There are also countries like Turkey which are playing a crucial role restoring order to the Middle East chaos and to the confusion arising from the riots on the shores of North Africa. Riots, instigated by the centres of power and Western interests which are destabilizing the entire Mediterranean, with dangerous implications for the European social stability19.
A strange blend of materialistic consumerism and Islamic fundamentalism is undermining the foundations the root on which to build our Eurasia.
The scholars and friends, Alexandr Dugin and Leonid Savin, have well-studied in recent years the Eurasian perspective, as well as the insights made by the Research Center «Vox Populi»20, lead to point out how it is achieving a just revenge of the geography and of geopolitics on the economic interests and on the inancial alchemies of the last thirty years. As proof of this concept there is the increasing nervousness with which the technocratic elite is moving, exerting an unprecedented pressure against the legitimately elected governments in Europe, but not only.
The military strategies, which have tried for decades, sometimes with success, to divide the peoples of Eurasia, begin to become less effective. Indeed, they risk of creating further and uncontrollable outcomes, destabilizing entire geographical areas.
We need new languages and to rewrite the history with new points of view. It is the important work carried out, for example, by Augusto Grandi, economic journalist of the highest Italian financial newspaper «Il Sole 24 Ore», who in a book, has rewritten in detail 150 of Italian history21.
As rightly pointed out by Andrea Marcigliano, a senior fellow of the think tank «Gordian Knot», after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the USSR «it had spread an illusory and, in many ways, pernicious idea: the belief that we had now come to a «unipolar» world with a single hegemonic power, the United States of America, and, above all, with a single «culture» represented by the free-marketism concept in economics and its liberal-democratic «superstructure «in politics»22.
A concept theorized by the neoconservative, Francis Fukuyama, in his «The End of History and the Last Man» who was forced to revise deeply his theories, under the pressure of events of the last two decades. Events that have cancelled the «dream of globalization»