The Seven Empires: A Multipolar Project

By Alexander Dugin

The multipolar world denotes the coexistence of several empires, fully sovereign primarily in relation to the USA, against its claim to exclusivity and universality, and also towards each other.

Today, the world is gradually showing signs of a multipolar heptarchy, i.e., the model of the 7 empires is emerging:

1. Western Empire (USA + EU + vassals and lesser vassals).

2. Eurasian Empire (Russia + post-Soviet space, come what may). This is our emerging state-civilisation, as mentioned by Putin at Valdai.

3. Chinese Empire (mainland China + Taiwan and several states gravitating towards China from the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative).

4. Indian Empire (Bharat + Nepal + Bangladesh + Southeast Asian nations leaning towards India).

5. Islamic Empire (a potential bloc of Islamic countries with major poles being Saudi Arabia + Arab Sunni countries, Shia Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Maghreb countries, and others).

6. Latin-American Empire (based on a union of Brazil and Argentina with the addition of other countries, right up to the Caribbean nations and Mexico).

7. African Empire (Manden plateau empire around Mali + central and southern Bantu ecumene + Ethiopia and the Cushitic world).

The first empire, still claiming exclusivity, formed after the collapse of the USSR and, despite its decline, still strives to maintain its hegemony. Despite all its crises, it remains stronger than any other when taken individually. However, in terms of key metrics – economic, demographic, resources, and even ideological – it falls behind the alliance of other non-Western empires.

The next three empires – Russia, China, and India, which, by the way, have a very long history spanning centuries and even millennia – are actively forming. Essentially, they already represent independent sovereign poles and will continue to strengthen and expand their influence.

The Islamic Empire, with Baghdad as its logical centre (making it a kind of new Abbasid caliphate), is united by a powerful religion and its underlying ideology but is politically fragmented.

The African and Latin American Empires remain projects, but steps are being taken towards their realisation.

All 6 empires, excluding the Western one – that is, actual or potential state-civilisations, are united today within the expanded post-Johannesburg BRICS structure. Next year, Russia will chair BRICS, making it an opportune time to advance multipolarity and bolster it ideologically, economically, financially, militarily, and strategically. To achieve multipolarity, everyone needs to collectively challenge the Western empire’s claim to exclusivity. Not the empire itself, but its claim. The peoples of the world are called upon to break Western globalist arrogance. This is precisely what Russia is doing in Ukraine today.

SWA (Southwest Asia) represents the first hot conflict between unipolarity and multipolarity.

Categories: Geopolitics, International Affairs

Tags: Africa, China, Geopolitics, Multipolar World Order, Multipolarity, Muslim Ummah, Russia, USA