New poles
It is a sign of the demise of the 500-year Atlantic era that as early as the mid-20th century, several Asian countries called for a new world order, notably at the Bandung Conference in 1955, where 29 formerly colonised Afro-Asian countries came together to form a grouping of non-aligned countries that has been expanding ever since.
New poles
Geurasia

New poles


26/03/2024 21:50

Levente Horváth, Ph.D.,
Director of the Eurasia Center,
Editor-in-Chief of Eurasia

It is a sign of the demise of the 500-year Atlantic era that as early as the mid-20th century, several Asian countries called for a new world order, notably at the Bandung Conference in 1955, where 29 formerly colonised Afro-Asian countries came together to form a grouping of non-aligned countries that has been expanding ever since.

Interestingly, the conference was also attended by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, who had been targeted in an assassination attempt on his way to Hong Kong to prevent him from attending the conference (the assassination attempt, known as the Kashmir Princess incident, killed 16 people, the Chinese Premier changed his itinerary at the last minute). The 21st century has seen an increasing number of 'non-Western' multilateral cooperation arrangements, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (2001) and the recently expanding BRICS (BRIC was founded in 2009 and expanded to include South Africa in 2010).
Levente Horváth

Meanwhile, the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) was established in 2009, a geopolitical organisation of 150 million people based on a common language, civilisation, culture and roots, with a shared vision for common foreign policy issues and a call for closer cooperation between member countries in all areas.

OTS member states have an average economic growth of 5 per cent in 2022 – Turkey 5.5 per cent, Azerbaijan 4.6 per cent, Kazakhstan 3.2 per cent, Kyrgyzstan 6.2 per cent, Uzbekistan 5.7 per cent – above the global average of 3.1 per cent. It also occupies a strategic geographical position to connect the emerging Eurasian supercontinent, with huge potential for the economy and trading system of the new world order. The Organisation of Turkic States is also growing steadily; Hungary was granted observer status in September 2018. In November 2021, Turkmenistan joined, and in November 2022, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and in 2023, the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) became observer members of the Organisation.

The Organisation of Turkic States, led by Türkiye, is developing into another important bloc in the world order, which acts independently of the Western states but can play an important role in the new multipolar world order.



Cover photo: iStock

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