İMPARATORLUK VE HEGEMONİK INTERREGNUM

This paper deals with the crisis of the domination of the political “West” with the rest of the world, at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. Using the tradition of Ancient Rome, this paper will label the mentioned period as interregnum. Period when the unipolar world shifts towards a multipolar world, in which there is a need of new coexistence as a product of dialog against confrontation. The aim is to draw a historical parallel in order to determine the genesis of previous and current phenomena during the period of interregnum. Determination of the existence of cycles of interregnum in different civilizations and the exit strategy from such periods, with a special emphasis on modern phenomena in the era of globalization. This is a time of multiple crises and uncertainties which mark the end of the world as we know it, and the original need to go back to normalcy in an entirely new context of human existence. The paper, while analyzing the challenges of Western civilization, will also observe if the West, as a civilization, will have the courage for making bold and new decisions, or will it let another civilization do this; the paper deals with the view of West on the West itself. It was necessary to decipher the structural crisis of what we call the West, in order to respond to the dilemma of whether we are living in the end of the 5 centuries domination of the West over the entire humanity.