Abstract
The essay examines the theme of war and its different declinations
between East and West as an outcome of the development of capitalism after 1989, following the exhaustion of the socialist alternative and the emergence of “political capitalisms”, the American and the Chinese. The fate of Europe after the collapse of the Berlin Wall is thus framed within these new forms of conflict, with a particular focus on the sociopolitical role that, in the new global order, religions and economic inequalities play.