Liberal-Democratic Allies vs. Autocratic Powers: Prewar Era and World War 3?

Phillip Anthony O’Hara
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Phillip Anthony O’Hara: Global Political Economy Research Unit (GPERU)

Chapter Chapter 10 in Long Waves of Growth, Hegemonic Power, and Climate Change in the World Economy, 2025, pp 429-460 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to examine the nature and likely causes and the trajectory of the ongoing conflicts between several liberal-democratic allies [LDAs] (especially NATO) and numerous autocratic powers [APs] (especially Russia and China) using core general principles of war and political economy. We situate this paper within the context of the ongoing wars and conflicts involving the situation in Southeast Europe (e.g., Ukraine) and the Asia-Pacific (e.g., Taiwan), also involving agreements, military bases, competitive struggles, hegemonic battles, and geopolitical rivalries, and how they may evolve in the future. The ten dialectical (contradictory) principles of war in the information age are interrelated with the core principles of political economy (PoPE), such as historical specificity, hegemony/uneven development, contradiction, heterogeneous groups and agents, innovation, uncertainty, circular and cumulative causation (CCC), socioeconomic circuits (CSD), plus policy and governance. We make conclusions about the likely trajectory and possible outcomes of these ongoing conflicts using these principles and concurrent developments, noting their significance for long waves, hegemony, and climate change.

Keywords: Hegemonic struggle; Contradictions & crises; Principles; Long waves; Ukraine; Taiwan; 2010s–2020s; Liberal-democratic allies; Autocratic powers; World War 3; Waves; Hegemony; Climate change; Prewar era (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-4132-1_10

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