ABSTRACT
Recent developments after 1989’s abrupt transformation in world geopolitics have not yet shed enough light on the process that led to the collapse of the communist–West competition and its accompanying world order. On the contrary, the processes of globalization brought about a loss of the traditional meaning in international politics, especially in “the double essence of centrality” (global fragmentation) and of final goals (what will come after capitalism) that seem to characterize the present international system. 2
