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A world tired of peace, a fractured region In this talk on Friday, September 27, 2024, Juan Tokatlian says that today's world is going through a critical juncture. From his internationalist perspective, he highlights, in the global dimension, that there is a slow shift in the center of gravity from the West to the East (not only China, but the East in general): "The East as a whole begins to have an audible voice." He highlights that endogenous crises (the diplomatic and financial crises of 2008) have eroded the West and this will have an impact on the rise of the East. "We are facing a world that we do not know, because we have the perspective of the West." He asks what is the dominant axis in the world today. During the Cold War, the dominant axis was clear and categorical: the United States vs. the Soviet Union. Now the degree of interdependence between China and the United States is enormous and, unlike what happened in the Cold War, each represents a form of capitalism: the United States', economic, and China's, political. On the other hand, he stresses that the world has grown tired of peace. There is growing militarism, economic stagnation and confrontations for territorial control that foster contingent conditions for war. "There is fatigue with peace." In the regional dimension, Latin America is losing relative weight: "we have lost influence." He believes that the region lacks clear leadership. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan Gabriel Tokatlian is a prominent academic in the field of international relations. Currently, he is a professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. Professor Tokatlian is a sociologist, with a master's degree and PhD in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University (Washington DC). In addition to being a professor, he was vice-rector of the Di Tella University in Argentina. He lived for eighteen years in Colombia, where he was co-founder of the Center for International Studies at the University of Los Andes. He has written several books, particularly on relations between Latin America and the United States and specifically on the international political scene and foreign relations of Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.