{ "item_title" : "Geopolitics and World-Systems in a Bifurcating Order", "item_author" : [" Charles Pennaforte "], "item_description" : "Pennaforte offers a fascinating exploration of the Ukraine war and several other areas of confrontation, such as cyberspace, as episodes defining the position of proactive and active challenges to a declining US hegemony. These actions, the book argues, generate an antisystemic imperative, in which rivals and middle powers have to respond, either actively within existing systems or proactively to challenge them directly.--Aaron Schneider, University of Denver, US. Charles Pennaforte's argument is therefore not that a new order has already been born, but that the old one is losing legitimacy while still retaining immense power. The result is not stability but bifurcation: a long, uncertain, and dangerous transition in which the center still commands but no longer convinces.--Giuseppe Gagliano, Carlo de Cristoforis Study Center, Italy. In the early twenty-first century, the international order entered a period of turbulence. The Ukraine War exposed the limits of US-led hegemony and accelerated geopolitical and geoeconomic realignments. This book argues that the war and the sanctions regime have acted as an antisystemic imperative, fostering alternative coalitions, currency diversification, and greater autonomy across the Global South. Drawing on World-Systems Analysis and Classical and Critical Geopolitics, it explains strategies of contestation through a typology of proactive and active states. It examines the Russia-China partnership, BRICS/BRICS Plus, cyberspace and narrative warfare, while highlighting Brazil's semiperipheral position between Western institutions and autonomy. With clarity and analytical rigor, Geopolitics and World-Systems in a Bifurcating Order offers a Global South perspective on what comes after US hegemony? Charles Pennaforte is a Brazilian scholar of Geopolitics and World-Systems Analysis and professor at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), where he coordinates the Geopolitics, International Relations, and Antisystemic Movements Laboratory (LabGRIMA). He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. His research focuses on hegemonic transition, the Global South, and BRICS. ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/3/03/236/925/3032369258_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "109.99", "online_price" : "109.99", "our_price" : "109.99", "club_price" : "109.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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