Conceptual analysis demonstrates structural tensions across contemporary geopolitical systems, highlighting a Clausewitzian balance for multipolar order.
Key Points
To conceptualize contemporary global systemic fragmentation through the framework of hybrid globalisation and Clausewitzian strategic theory.
Theoretical synthesis contrasting classical models of uniform globalisation and glocalisation against contemporary geopolitical fragmentation.
Application of Carl von Clausewitz’s concepts of the floating balance of opposites, the dialectic of attack and defence, and the curious trinity as an analytical framework for non-military global governance.
Identifies hybrid globalisation as a system driven by simultaneous, conflicting forces—such as digital acceleration, economic weaponisation, and cultural resistance—rather than sequential integration.
Establishes that Global South states act as influential co-authors in a multi-civilisational, multipolar order while absorbing disproportionate institutional and cultural shocks.
Demonstrates that managing contemporary systemic friction requires structurally mediating competing tensions rather than resolving them, using a floating balance between self-preservation and self-transcendence.
Cite This Study
Andreas Herberg-Rothe (2026) studied this question.