“New scenarios open up from the Arab springs, from the “shale gas”, from the agreement between Asia and South America. While Europe is lost in its stagnation rather than in its depression, Russia appears increasingly isolated, China powerful and aggressive, the furthest antipodes.” Giulio Sapelli, famous economic historian and professor at the University of Milan, writes it in his new book “Where is the world going? – For a world history of the present” by the publisher Guerini.
“The old convergence of growth that guaranteed jobs, commerce, lifestyles is over: the fault line between the continents is widening, with the USA disengaging from the transatlantic areas in favor of the transpacific ones. In the new global geostrategy, the decisive challenge - writes Sapelli - still remains energy supply, but the development of "shale, oil and gas" limits US interest in the Gulf and opens up dangerous power vacuums.
For this reason, while the Arab revolts throw the European order into crisis, only the integration of Russia can remedy the chaos. And Russia needs Russia economically and diplomatically above all by Italy, which is advancing towards the abyss by paying an excessive duty to a North Teutonic axis”.
