Daniel Marwecki

In Europe, America and Russia, an unhealthy obsession with grand geopolitical schemes has often clouded the judgement of statesmen and scholars. The perils of perpetual geopolitics | @VladislavZubok1 engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-per…

@DecoloniseNow @richten_nach Danke, ist im Buch keine normative Kategorie, wie der Rezensent impliziert (wohl von sich selbst ausgehend), sondern eine Denkstütze, mit der ich mir dann die "Welt nach dem Westen" anschaue. Ein Behälter, in den viel Widersprüchliches reinpasst. Rest ergibt sich aus dem Buch...

@marwecki @richten_nach Sorry ich habe gerade erst gesehen (habe deinen Post als Retweet in die TL gespült bekommen), dass du hier auf eine Rezension antwortest… sollte der Screenshot aus deinem Buch stammen bleiben meine Fragen bestehen, auch wenn das Buch sie wahrscheinlich in seiner Länge behandelt.

Die langweiligsten Kritiker sind die Nichtleser. Die frustrierendsten sind die bewusst selektiven Leser. Wer das Buch kennt, weiss, was von dieser Rezension zu halten ist.

@KaiKodden @thorstenbenner Dass es dafür die jungle world braucht ; )

@marwecki @thorstenbenner Ich muss Dein Buch jetzt auch endlich mal lesen😅

@thorstenbenner Danke für die öffentliche Einsicht. Schaffen hier nur wenige. Ja, die Diskussion lohnt sich. Auch, aber längst nicht nur deswegen gibt es dieses Buch.

@marwecki Kann Ihre Frustration nachvollziehen. Hätte das so plakativ nicht labeln sollen. Es lohnt differenzierte Auseinandersetzung darüber, wie progressives Lager, das westliche Macht kritisch sieht und/oder Dekarbonisierung priorisiert, auf den chinesischen Parteistaat blickt.

Lindsey Graham ist tatsächlich das, was man im Englischen mit dem schönen Wort "unhinged" beschreiben mag. Ein enthemmter Kriegsfreund. Wessen Politik solche Leute enttäuscht, kann nicht alles falsch machen.

Das ist schön: "Die Welt nach dem Westen" steht auf der Shortlist der politischen Bücher des Jahres von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Glückwunsch an den Gewinnertext, ich freue mich über die exquisite Gesellschaft. fes.de/preis-das-poli…

The shame. The horror. nytimes.com/2026/03/16/hea…

When an entire country loses electricity, countless preventable deaths follow—because a doctor can’t arrive in time, because of complications during childbirth that would have required surgery, or because dialysis machines stop working. Cuba is now facing exactly that situation.

"Beyond strict and lengthy visa procedures, Americans may be shocked to find that the Europe awaiting them is not the one where James Baldwin roamed the cobbled streets of the Pantheon deep in conversation with Gertrude Stein, but a slightly altered version of what is happening at home. Aggressive immigration policy, attacks on human rights, crumbling cultural institutions and government inaction or corruption abide, even in the places we love to fantasize about." - @erinclarebrown @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/running-notes/…

Today on the @NewStatesman, a stunning tribute to Jürgen Habermas by Jan-Werner Müller – lucid, encompassing and deeply felt:

“Marco Rubio’s encomiums to white Western civilization, and Hegseth’s pornographic fantasies of ‘death and destruction from the sky all day long,’ proclaim today a sadistic urge to re-impose the racial hierarchies of the nineteenth century.” —Pankaj Mishra go.nybooks.com/3PhRA9t

A noteworthy Oped by Dmitri Trenin, the former head of Carnegie’s Russia office turned uber-hawk and champion of the war on Ukraine. He notes that the “treachery” in US talks with Iran was executed by the same Witkoff-Kushner duo currently negotiating with Russia, says that the current generation of Russians likely won’t see the easing of U.S. sanctions, adds there is no more room for U.S.-Russia cooperation on regional issues (including nuclear nonproliferation) — and calls on Russia to actively collaborate with America’s targets, such as Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and above all China. profile.ru/abroad/kak-tep…

A message for 🇪🇺President @VonDerLeyen and 🇩🇪Chancellor Merz: "You can't support those who set the world on fire and then blame the smoke caused by the fire." In an era where most of Europe's leaders are so spineless, Pedro Sanchez really stands out.

Habermas is dead. I remember his clash with Rudi Dutschke at Berlin Vietnam Congress in February 1968. Condolences to his daughter Judith who worked at Verso for a while. Below a small extract from Perry Anderson's essay on the military philosophers in New Left Review: "Habermas grew up in a small Rhenish town under Hitler. His father joined the Nazi party in 1933, and Habermas himself briefly took part in defensive work with the Hitlerjugend at the end of the war. After discovering the realities of the Third Reich and breaking with Heidegger, who had been his first major influence, Habermas became the major philosophical descendant of the Frankfurt School, absorbing its distinctive transformations of Marx, and then in turn criticizing these in the light of American pragmatism and systems theory. Intellectually heir to the totalizing ambitions of German idealism, scarcely any major philosophical tradition has fallen outside the range of his interests, in which sociology—classical and contemporary—has also occupied a central place. As a political thinker, the pattern of Habermas’s writing reverses that of Rawls, whom he has criticized for his inappropriately substantive intentions. His own political theory is purely procedural, abstaining from any programmatic proposals. On the other hand, Habermas has never hesitated to intervene politically on topical issues, adopting public positions on leading disputes of the day in Germany, as a citizen of the left. His Kleine politische Schriften now run to nine volumes, rivalling the number of Sartre’s Situations. At the same time, he has never been involved in any political organization, keeping his distance from spd and Greens alike." newleftreview.org/issues/ii31/ar…

"Nicht wirklich ein Vordenker", urteilt ein Onlinestratege über Jürgen Habermas in ansonsten gönnerhaftem Tonfall.

Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, provided that the oil cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official tells CNN. @CNN @cnni cnn.com/world/live-new…

This excellent read is why I urge people to refer to GCC and Arab analysts for this Iran war: “What comes next is far from clear. There is no shortage of resentment toward Tehran in Gulf capitals. But acute vulnerability remains, and the logic that drove the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement of 2023, that Iran could not be deterred and therefore had to be engaged, has been reinforced by the current war. Attempts to repair the rift will be made, precisely because the alternative is worse. Nor will the US presence dissolve easily. The basing arrangements, arms procurement relationships, and security assurances around which Gulf states have built their security reflect decisions taken across generations, embedded in the institutional fabric of states that have known no other model. The United States, for its part, has no interest in withdrawing from a region whose energy and capital flows and strategic geography remain central to its global posture. The entanglement runs in both directions. Of the three tracks, the Israeli relationship is in some respects the easiest to reconsider, but it is also not likely to be entirely abandoned. The UAE and Bahrain have shown, across several tests including Israel's conduct in Gaza, that their commitment to normalization is not conditional on Israeli behavior. Saudi Arabia is a different case. The Gaza war and Israel's refusal to make any meaningful concession on Palestinian statehood have rendered normalization politically impossible and have confirmed that Riyadh's conditions were never merely rhetorical.” Well explained @elhamfakhro

Combine General Westmoreland with the Cat in the Hat and a Sprite bottle full of vodka and you get this