The prevailing literature on geopolitics is, in large part, an echo of how the world appears through the lens of the West. This dominant perspective has not only shaped the narratives of global power but has also denied many nations — particularly those of the East — the opportunity to express the world through their own conceptual and philosophical frameworks.

Deprived of this kaleidoscope, many nations have been constricted into worldviews not born of their own soil but superimposed through intellectual and institutional dominance of the West.

My new book, Geopolitics - Frameworks and Dynamics in a Multipolar World, is perhaps a natural reaction to this asphyxiation of expression, which has and will lead many observant minds to rethink national and geopolitical narrative.

Perhaps it is right time to rethink and re-narrate, when the unipolar world is changing into a multipolar world, and when the geo-economic situation of the world also seems to be at the edge of a polar-shift, rather it has become a compulsion.

The tyranny of political correctness and epistemological dependency has paralysed indigenous ideological growth, depriving nations of the very dream of becoming protagonists in their own historical unfolding. Breathing, thinking, working nations cannot be caged within the strictures of externally dictated norms any longer.

Nevertheless, to think geopolitics from the East is not to reject the West, but to decolonise the imagination. It is to assert that every culture has the right - and perhaps the obligation - to interpret the world through its own metaphysical lens. Western geopolitics, rooted in figures like Mackinder, Mahan and Haushofer, framed the globe as a chessboard for power acquisition.

To this........

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