We humans tend to be very self-centered. This is usually the double effect of our limited focus and scope. When we focus on a way of seeing, we become blind to alternative possibilities. That’s the mental equivalent of Gombrich’s famous Rabbit-Duck optical illusion. And because we define that our point of view is the starting point to understand the world, we cannot imagine how it can be understood from any other starting points of view. In today’s geopolitical and geoeconomics discussions, it is common to hear that we’re facing a reordering and rebalancing of the world’s affairs that implies a shift of centrality from the “West” (usually, this means the Atlantic axis) to Asia (or Eurasia) that it’s part of an antagonistic understanding of power balance. Now, pessimist narratives lament the possible end of Euro-American centrality, and the rise of new competing powers. Simultaneously, we hear of a renovated anti-colonial discursivity coming from various quarters, challenging the Western notions of (Western-inspired) globalisation. How then can we understand world matters if not through our own eyes, from our own point of view, and how can we simultaneously see a Rabbit and a Duck?

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Globalisation,New world order,Multipolarity