The Fourth Political Theory

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Alexander Dugin discusses the illegitimate regime in Ukraine, the crumbling globalist order, and the rise of a new ideological confrontation between the Trumpist West and the traditionalist multipolar world.

Rejecting 20th-century totalitarian frameworks, Alexander Dugin calls for ideological clarity and fair debate in a multipolar world led by genuine freedom of speech.

The trumpism in IR is reorganisation of Western hegemony on the basis of right liberalism and Western identity.

Alexander Dugin integrates Freudian, Jungian, and Guattarian frameworks to analyze civilizations as dynamic systems shaped by unconscious structures, material flows, and rationalized universes, offering a critique of Western modernity and envisioning multipolarity as a reterritorialized civilizational order.

What the life after woke looks like? If we want to overcome woke, we need to identify its roots and extract them. The roots are nominalism, hyper-individualism and liberalism as ideology...

The Strauss-Howe theory is particularly relevant when addressing the dynamic between sociality (holism) and individualism. This is akin to the famous L. Dumont's dilemma where sociality represents the High, the beginning, and spring, while individualism signifies the Crisis, the end, and winter, with the individual portrayed as Krampus.

A profound shift in the global perception of Israel — and perhaps of the Jewish people as a whole — is underway. After the catastrophe European Jews endured under Hitler during World War Two, they evoked widespread pity, compassion, and sincere sympathy on a global scale. This moral capital facilitated the establishment of the State of Israel. The Holocaust, or Shoah — signifying the horrors and persecutions suffered by Jews — served as the foundation for the universal consensus: after such suffering, the Jewish people unquestionably deserved their own state. This sacred status of the Holocaust became a cornerstone of Jewish identity and moral capital.

How reconcile multipolarity with trumpism? It is not clear yet. Among trumpists there are those who can agree with that and those who are against. Neocons don’t take part in trumpism directly (being globalists) but their influence is still present.

Alexander Dugin argues that the unfolding chaos of 2025 lies in the triadic uncertainty of a dying unipolarity, the theoretical opacity of multipolarity, and the unpredictable conservatism of Trumpism, all converging to demand a new ontology of global order.

What is post-liberalism? There is conventional left version: Wallerstein, Trotskyism, Negri-Hardt global anarchism. Cultural Marxism and hyperglobalization. It is obvious that J.D.Vance, Thiel, Musk and other trump-futurists mean something quite different when they use the term.
So post-liberal right. What does it mean? Easiest way to decipher the notion is to reduce it to previous - more conservative, less progressist, pre-woke - stage of the same liberalism. I guess the majority of Trump's voters instinctively interpret that like this.

In August 2022, a car bomb in Moscow claimed the life of Daria Dugina, a rising voice in political philosophy whose insights were cut tragically short at age 29. Her posthumously published work A Theory of Europe stands as both her intellectual testament and a rare window into the French Nouvelle Droite (New Right) movement. While mainstream coverage often reduces this school of thought to simplistic labels, Dugina’s intimate knowledge of its key thinkers reveals a fascinating philosophical current that challenges our fundamental assumptions about European identity and civilization.

Kathmandu (Keshav Bhattarai): On November 23, 2024, with the support of the Russian House in Nepal, a conference by philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin was held at the Russian House in Kathmandu on the theme “Emerging Multipolarity: South Asian Context”.

Kathmandu (Keshav Bhattarai): On November 23, 2024, with the support of the Russian House in Nepal, a conference by philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin was held at the Russian House in Kathmandu on the theme “Emerging Multipolarity: South Asian Context”(Зарождающаяся многополярность: южноазиатский контекст). The conference gathered numerous distinguished guests, including ambassadors, scholars, and former ministers. At the very beginning of the event, the broadcast was targeted by hackers who disrupted the live stream with obscene content. But, technical issues were promptly resolved.

To realise its immense potential as a cohesive pole in this new global order, the Islamic world needs to decide on the best way forward. Inspiration can be found in the Abbasid model

I originally envisioned this article as a review of five semi-randomly selected books by esteemed Russian Professor Alexander Dugin. However, as my experience with mass surveys has sometimes proven murky, with me feeling like I give short shrift to someone or some part of the analysis, I decided to take a slightly different approach. Accordingly, herein I strongly recommend a set of books by Dugin, about Dugin, or associated with Dugin.

Alexander Dugin argues that Russia’s uncompromising stance on fully integrating Ukraine into its sphere is a geopolitical imperative, driven by existential necessity rather than expansionist ambitions, and must be clearly communicated to Western leaders like Trump to avoid disastrous misunderstandings.

Alexander Markovics reviews Alexander Dugin’s book Politica Aeterna: Political Platonism & the Dark Enlightenment.

The Eighth Tsargrad Congress at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was remarkable.

Alexander Dugin reveals the deep state as a corrupt Western cabal, infiltrating the U.S. and Europe to manipulate elections, crush populist leaders like Donald Trump, and impose its liberal-globalist agenda by deceitfully posing as a protector of democracy while ruthlessly subverting the will of the people.

Alexander Dugin argues that the escalating conflict in the Middle East marks the beginning of a larger global war, as Iran and its allies confront Israel and the Western hegemony, opening a second front following Ukraine.

The concept of “pagan” has an Old Testament origin. In Russian, “gentiles” were called peoples. The ancient Jews used the term “am” (עם) to describe themselves, and “goy” (גוי) to describe other nations. Jews = the people, it is one (chosen), and the “languages” of the nations are many. Thus the Jews themselves worshipped one God, and were sure that all other nations (tongues) worshipped many gods. 

Yesterday’s session of the permanent meeting of the Russian Security Council, during which Vladimir Putin announced amendments to our country’s nuclear doctrine (“Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence”), is an extremely important event.