The Fourth Political Theory

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The behavior of Volodymyr Zelensky during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump is indicative of a growing divide within the collective West, splitting it into two opposing poles: those who seek an end to the Ukrainian conflict and those who wish to prolong it, said Russian philosopher, political scientist, and sociologist Alexander Dugin.

A New Geopolitical Map – Right Tech sees China as the main competitor, Russia as a key resource hub, and dismisses liberal ideological concerns as irrelevant.

Alexander Dugin asserts that while Germany seeks an alternative, the CDU remains a globalist facade, and only the AfD represents common sense, yet any Russia-Germany alliance is impossible under liberal Merz, making future cooperation with Trump far more likely.

Alexander Dugin posits that true sovereignty requires philosophical depth, not just political will. Without a spiritual and intellectual foundation, nations will fall prey to figures like Soros, who use wealth to dictate reality.

Alexander Dugin posits that true sovereignty requires philosophical depth, not just political will. Without a spiritual and intellectual foundation, nations will fall prey to figures like Soros, who use wealth to dictate reality.

The initiative by Republican congressmen for the USA to exit the United Nations is not surprising. The UN has long ceased to correspond to the realities of international politics. It is a phantom pain: the structure of the United Nations reflects the balance of power that emerged after World War Two, in which there were two antagonistic blocks and the Non-Aligned Movement. But it was precisely between these two blocks, capitalist and socialist, that the entire real architecture of world politics unfolded.

Alexander Dugin describes the Riyadh negotiations as a significant breakthrough, highlighting that the new American administration’s openness has allowed Russia to clearly present its stance on Ukraine, ultimately leading to the political elimination of Zelensky.

Alexander Dugin argues that the Russian people have been kept in a state of deep ideological slumber by both historical inertia and a ruling elite that fears their awakening, and only a profound national revival — akin to breaking a dark magical spell — can restore their agency and ensure Russia’s survival.

Alexander Dugin emphasizes that Trump’s rejection of liberal globalism and pursuit of American hegemony inadvertently paves the way for a multipolar world of sovereign great powers.

Alexander Dugin argues that the “New Yalta” will be marked by key negotiations among major civilizational powers like Russia, the West, China, and India, ultimately leading to the creation of a multipolar world order beyond Western dominance.

The US president won’t go back to politics as usual. Through his Trumpist ideology, he could spearhead a sociopolitical revolution—both at home and abroad.

Alexander Dugin argues that Russia must overcome the dictatorship of mediocrity in its cultural sphere to establish a distinct, civilizational cinema and reclaim its unique cultural identity in a multipolar world.

What has transpired in the United States following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections, the inauguration process, and the transfer of power, demonstrates that we are witnessing a rapid process of conservative revolution in the U.S. The system of values is changing in a direction almost diametrically opposed to its previous trajectory. The principles Trump and his team are proclaiming, along with the initial steps they are taking, stand in complete contradiction to the left-liberal ideology underpinning the orientations, strategies, and actions of the globalists.

Alexander Dugin discusses the illegitimate regime in Ukraine, the crumbling globalist order, and the rise of a new ideological confrontation between the Trumpist West and the traditionalist multipolar world.

Rejecting 20th-century totalitarian frameworks, Alexander Dugin calls for ideological clarity and fair debate in a multipolar world led by genuine freedom of speech.

The trumpism in IR is reorganisation of Western hegemony on the basis of right liberalism and Western identity.

Alexander Dugin integrates Freudian, Jungian, and Guattarian frameworks to analyze civilizations as dynamic systems shaped by unconscious structures, material flows, and rationalized universes, offering a critique of Western modernity and envisioning multipolarity as a reterritorialized civilizational order.

What the life after woke looks like? If we want to overcome woke, we need to identify its roots and extract them. The roots are nominalism, hyper-individualism and liberalism as ideology...

The Strauss-Howe theory is particularly relevant when addressing the dynamic between sociality (holism) and individualism. This is akin to the famous L. Dumont's dilemma where sociality represents the High, the beginning, and spring, while individualism signifies the Crisis, the end, and winter, with the individual portrayed as Krampus.

A profound shift in the global perception of Israel — and perhaps of the Jewish people as a whole — is underway. After the catastrophe European Jews endured under Hitler during World War Two, they evoked widespread pity, compassion, and sincere sympathy on a global scale. This moral capital facilitated the establishment of the State of Israel. The Holocaust, or Shoah — signifying the horrors and persecutions suffered by Jews — served as the foundation for the universal consensus: after such suffering, the Jewish people unquestionably deserved their own state. This sacred status of the Holocaust became a cornerstone of Jewish identity and moral capital.

How reconcile multipolarity with trumpism? It is not clear yet. Among trumpists there are those who can agree with that and those who are against. Neocons don’t take part in trumpism directly (being globalists) but their influence is still present.

Alexander Dugin argues that the unfolding chaos of 2025 lies in the triadic uncertainty of a dying unipolarity, the theoretical opacity of multipolarity, and the unpredictable conservatism of Trumpism, all converging to demand a new ontology of global order.