TY - JOUR AU - Bajrektarevic, Anis H PY - 2021/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Unavoidability of Sino-American rift: History of strategic decoupling JF - AEI Insights JA - AEI Insights VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/AEIINSIGHTS/article/view/31632 SP - 47-58 AB - <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> ER -