World politics in 2021: Infected by rivalry. Egmont Commentary14 June 2021.
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2021

If China is rising, it must be seeking world domination. If Russia is declining, it must be plotting revenge. The United States, in turn, will surely not refrain from anything to maintain its dominance. And the European Union? A mere puppet of the US. Or worse, a cynical free-rider on American military might which, behind a façade of lofty rhetoric on values, pursues only its own economic advantage. That is what a world that has been infected by rivalry looks like. But is this picture correct?