@article{Bajrektarevic_2021, title={Unavoidability of Sino-American rift: History of strategic decoupling}, volume={7}, url={https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/AEIINSIGHTS/article/view/31632}, abstractNote={<p>Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical? Surely, our<br>history warns (no matter if the Past is seen as a destination or resource). Does it also provide for a hope? Hence, what is in front of us: destiny or future?<br>Theory loves to teach us that extensive debates on what kind of economic system is most<br>conductive to human wellbeing is what consumed most of our civilizational vertical. However,<br>our history has a different say: It seems that the manipulation of the global political economy<br>(and usage of fear as the currency of control) – far more than the introduction of ideologies –<br>is the dominant and arguably more durable way that human elites usually conspired to build or<br>break civilizations, as planned projects.</p>}, number={1}, journal={AEI Insights}, author={Bajrektarevic, Anis H}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={47–58} }