This book is about the role of geography and civiliation in past, present and future world politics. Geographically the world had been badly served by a division into three parts: "free" meaning capitalist, socialist, and the poor "Third World; West East and South. Civizationally the Nortwest is Catholic-Protestant-secular; the Northeast Orthodox-secular, Muslim and Hindu; the Southeast Daoist and Buddhist. Civilizations leave strong imprints on the worlds and their relations. One of them, Western civilization (but also Islam) sees itself with the right and duty to impose itself on others, even eliminating them. Based on this analysis and diagnosis, the book offers a view into the future, a prognosis, and proposals for a strategy away from war, toward peace |