object in front of the eyes). That he remains in his essay collection
The way the new Cold War and the fear of the white people. A swan
song. faithfully. He immerses the reader in a mixture of plastic
descriptions of foreign lands and people, political sources of fire
and instructive anecdotes.
The Way of the West into a new Cold War documents Scholl-Latour on the
years 2001 to 2008, Nine Eleven until the election of Barack Hussein
Obama as new U.S. president in the White House. The fear in the white
people, he follows the fortunes of the world's regions, which are
solved for some time after their liberation from colonial tutelage
increasingly formal and material from the dominance of their former
masters.
Scholl-Latour does bring up a new Cold War
Scholl-Latour believes that the absolute U.S. hegemony, as it might
pose to political observers by the end of the Cold War in the 1990s,
is approaching its end, irrefutable. Within the framework of the world
movement to a multi-polar state to him three phenomena are of
particular relevance: Firstly generating the return of Russia on the
world political stage, secondly, the rapid economic and military rise
of China as the dominant power in Asia, and the rise of revolutionary
Islamic forces in the "Muslim belt" from Morocco to Indonesia, a
number of potential lines of conflict, which make a strategic
adjustment of the part of the hegemonic U.S. led "West" is necessary.
Russia, whose territory had been shifted to the end of the Soviet
Union around 1000 kilometers to the east looks to continue a policy of
encirclement by NATO and EU enlargement exposed. Under Putin's aegis
erected from the debris field, Yeltsin again, it is returned as a
result of its successful commodity exports in world politics and has
continues to have immense technological military explosive. Also, the
distress, the U.S. economist whether the Chinese economic growth must
feel while national control by an autocratic regime, of course
basically by itself
The lines of conflict today are multilateral
Scholl-Latour, but remains available in this analysis, but rather
embeds the Russian and Chinese influence in the global actions of NATO
in the fight against Islamic terrorism after the attacks on the World
Trade Center since the year 2001. The war in Afghanistan, the Iraq
war, however, tensions with Iran and Pakistan are inextricably
connected to the instability due to the necessary tactical military
presence in the U.S. and its allies in Central Asia in the spheres of
power of Russia and China. The growing influence of Islamic minorities
in Europe holds potential for future diplomatic upsets with their
countries of origin, as also among the NATO partners themselves, which
are in addition to its treaty obligations to the highly variable part
included in the international conflicts.
Based on various reports, commentaries and interviews by the author
from 2001 to 2008, relating to the key events in European and world
politics, the reader of this problem area is identified.
The world's dominant era of the white people comes to an end
The theme of the second book be presented is undoubtedly related to
the first. The gradual transformation of the international policy in a
multipolar events is closely related to the fact that the absolute
global dominance of the Europeans, who grew almost 500 years, has long
since passed its zenith. Not only in the former colonies in the core
European countries, "the whites" overgrown demographically. Even the
U.S. is experiencing a massive decline in proportional White
Anglo-Saxon Protestants in favor of blacks and mestizos advancing, the
hybrids of the Indians with the Spanish conquistadors. The consequence
of that fact, also accompanied by the loss of technological monopoly
of the Germanic peoples, created a political shift of power must feel,
Scholl-Latour skillfully. The election of Obama the first black U.S.
president it is only the most obvious signal of a world trend.
The fear of the white people is not irrational
In eight songs (cantos) decides to move from veteran journalist and
world traveler to East Timor, Bali, Java and Oceania to the
Philippines to China and Kazakhstan in Kyrgyzstan to end his journey.
In the world of roaming regions that were once the object of European
colonial policy, he can fall back on his lifelong experience and
compare his impressions of some decades ago with the freshly
collected. He demonstrates impressively how Asia with its own,
increasingly independent dynamics of Europeans changed again, without
missing a reference to countries that historically - such as Brazil,
with East Timor by the Portuguese colonial empire - are connected to
its destination.
At the end of the book he will then do a little sentimental. Does he
start in the fall of white power, a certain tragedy, he considers
Brazil as a possible starting point at the end of future social
evolution, because there seem to be missing among other racial
reservations about the country's history, despite completely. The
shining through in these concluding speculation equanimity of the old
gentleman towards a future that he will no longer belong to the book
on fundamentals but does not detract. Again and again one suspects it
clear that Scholl-Latour is not convinced of a peaceful end without a
break of that transformation.
Especially for newbies Scholl-Latour, a gain
Both books are equipped with numerous illustrations. The hardback
edition of The fear of the white people can also come up even with a
political map of Central Asia and Oceania, which facilitate the
geographic classification Intended States significantly.
Both collections of essays to work part time with already published
material of the author. This could interfere with the person who knows
the Scholl-Latour's analysis of previous publications already. Anyone
who has read little or nothing of him can acquire them untested,
however, and learn about the world.
Peter Scholl-Latour: The road to the new Cold War. Ullstein paperback
publisher. 352 pages, € 9,95
Peter Scholl-Latour: The fear of the white people. A swan song.
Propylaea publisher. 464 pages, € 8.99
