#hegemony — Public Fediverse posts
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“Hormuz: The beginning of the end of dominance”
By Mohammad Ibrahim in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“The clearest lesson from history remains constant: decline does not begin with defeat, but with a moment of doubt. In that moment, power does not collapse immediately, but begins to shift from a source of confidence to a subject of question. Hence, the Strait of Hormuz may become a pivotal point in reshaping the international system, where the decisive factor is no longer who is strongest, but who is perceived as likely to remain so”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/hormuz--the-beginning-of-the-end-of-dominance
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Decline #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Dominance #Multipolarity
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“Hormuz: The beginning of the end of dominance”
By Mohammad Ibrahim in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“The clearest lesson from history remains constant: decline does not begin with defeat, but with a moment of doubt. In that moment, power does not collapse immediately, but begins to shift from a source of confidence to a subject of question. Hence, the Strait of Hormuz may become a pivotal point in reshaping the international system, where the decisive factor is no longer who is strongest, but who is perceived as likely to remain so”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/hormuz--the-beginning-of-the-end-of-dominance
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Decline #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Dominance #Multipolarity
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“Hormuz: The beginning of the end of dominance”
By Mohammad Ibrahim in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“The clearest lesson from history remains constant: decline does not begin with defeat, but with a moment of doubt. In that moment, power does not collapse immediately, but begins to shift from a source of confidence to a subject of question. Hence, the Strait of Hormuz may become a pivotal point in reshaping the international system, where the decisive factor is no longer who is strongest, but who is perceived as likely to remain so”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/hormuz--the-beginning-of-the-end-of-dominance
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Decline #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Dominance #Multipolarity
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“Hormuz: The beginning of the end of dominance”
By Mohammad Ibrahim in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“The clearest lesson from history remains constant: decline does not begin with defeat, but with a moment of doubt. In that moment, power does not collapse immediately, but begins to shift from a source of confidence to a subject of question. Hence, the Strait of Hormuz may become a pivotal point in reshaping the international system, where the decisive factor is no longer who is strongest, but who is perceived as likely to remain so”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/hormuz--the-beginning-of-the-end-of-dominance
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Decline #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Dominance #Multipolarity
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“Hormuz: The beginning of the end of dominance”
By Mohammad Ibrahim in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“The clearest lesson from history remains constant: decline does not begin with defeat, but with a moment of doubt. In that moment, power does not collapse immediately, but begins to shift from a source of confidence to a subject of question. Hence, the Strait of Hormuz may become a pivotal point in reshaping the international system, where the decisive factor is no longer who is strongest, but who is perceived as likely to remain so”
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/hormuz--the-beginning-of-the-end-of-dominance
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Decline #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Dominance #Multipolarity
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“Empires Rise and Fall: Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?”
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies in The Palestine Chronicle
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@iran“Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of ‘end of empire’ moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Empires Rise and Fall: Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?”
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies in The Palestine Chronicle
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@iran“Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of ‘end of empire’ moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Empires Rise and Fall: Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?”
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies in The Palestine Chronicle
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@iran“Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of ‘end of empire’ moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Empires Rise and Fall: Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?”
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies in The Palestine Chronicle
@[email protected]
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@iran“Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of ‘end of empire’ moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Empires Rise and Fall: Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?”
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies in The Palestine Chronicle
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@iran“Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of ‘end of empire’ moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Handala hacking collective says it 'compromised' secure US navy phones, updated target bank for #Resistance Axis”
by The Cradle News Desk
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@iran“Iranian hacker collective Handala announced on 8 May that it breached the ‘secure phones of officers of the terrorist US Navy regime’ and began transferring updated US#Navy #coordinates in the Persian Gulf to regional resistance forces.
The group said it had mapped updated locations of US military gathering points across the Gulf region, describing the newly acquired data as a ‘target bank’."
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Handala
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“Handala hacking collective says it 'compromised' secure US navy phones, updated target bank for #Resistance Axis”
by The Cradle News Desk
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@iran“Iranian hacker collective Handala announced on 8 May that it breached the ‘secure phones of officers of the terrorist US Navy regime’ and began transferring updated US#Navy #coordinates in the Persian Gulf to regional resistance forces.
The group said it had mapped updated locations of US military gathering points across the Gulf region, describing the newly acquired data as a ‘target bank’."
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Handala
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“Handala hacking collective says it 'compromised' secure US navy phones, updated target bank for #Resistance Axis”
by The Cradle News Desk
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@iran“Iranian hacker collective Handala announced on 8 May that it breached the ‘secure phones of officers of the terrorist US Navy regime’ and began transferring updated US#Navy #coordinates in the Persian Gulf to regional resistance forces.
The group said it had mapped updated locations of US military gathering points across the Gulf region, describing the newly acquired data as a ‘target bank’."
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Handala
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“Handala hacking collective says it 'compromised' secure US navy phones, updated target bank for #Resistance Axis”
by The Cradle News Desk
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@iran“Iranian hacker collective Handala announced on 8 May that it breached the ‘secure phones of officers of the terrorist US Navy regime’ and began transferring updated US#Navy #coordinates in the Persian Gulf to regional resistance forces.
The group said it had mapped updated locations of US military gathering points across the Gulf region, describing the newly acquired data as a ‘target bank’."
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Handala
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“Handala hacking collective says it 'compromised' secure US navy phones, updated target bank for #Resistance Axis”
by The Cradle News Desk
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@iran“Iranian hacker collective Handala announced on 8 May that it breached the ‘secure phones of officers of the terrorist US Navy regime’ and began transferring updated US#Navy #coordinates in the Persian Gulf to regional resistance forces.
The group said it had mapped updated locations of US military gathering points across the Gulf region, describing the newly acquired data as a ‘target bank’."
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony #Handala
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“Iran’s 'threat' to Western hegemony is not nuclear weapons: It is being a sovereign state developing outside of its control”
by Samuel Geddes in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“It is a fear of the vastly enhanced economic and technological weight of an Iran unburdened by secondary sanctions, reaping tens of billions of dollars in taxes on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamentally restructuring the security and economic architecture of the Gulf, that explains the Trump administration’s unwillingness to end the state of war, even as it pushes the global economy deeper into existential crisis every day”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Iran’s 'threat' to Western hegemony is not nuclear weapons: It is being a sovereign state developing outside of its control”
by Samuel Geddes in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“It is a fear of the vastly enhanced economic and technological weight of an Iran unburdened by secondary sanctions, reaping tens of billions of dollars in taxes on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamentally restructuring the security and economic architecture of the Gulf, that explains the Trump administration’s unwillingness to end the state of war, even as it pushes the global economy deeper into existential crisis every day”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Iran’s 'threat' to Western hegemony is not nuclear weapons: It is being a sovereign state developing outside of its control”
by Samuel Geddes in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“It is a fear of the vastly enhanced economic and technological weight of an Iran unburdened by secondary sanctions, reaping tens of billions of dollars in taxes on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamentally restructuring the security and economic architecture of the Gulf, that explains the Trump administration’s unwillingness to end the state of war, even as it pushes the global economy deeper into existential crisis every day”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Iran’s 'threat' to Western hegemony is not nuclear weapons: It is being a sovereign state developing outside of its control”
by Samuel Geddes in Al Mayadeen English
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@iran“It is a fear of the vastly enhanced economic and technological weight of an Iran unburdened by secondary sanctions, reaping tens of billions of dollars in taxes on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamentally restructuring the security and economic architecture of the Gulf, that explains the Trump administration’s unwillingness to end the state of war, even as it pushes the global economy deeper into existential crisis every day”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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“Iran’s 'threat' to Western hegemony is not nuclear weapons: It is being a sovereign state developing outside of its control”
by Samuel Geddes in Al Mayadeen English
@[email protected]
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@[email protected]
@iran“It is a fear of the vastly enhanced economic and technological weight of an Iran unburdened by secondary sanctions, reaping tens of billions of dollars in taxes on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamentally restructuring the security and economic architecture of the Gulf, that explains the Trump administration’s unwillingness to end the state of war, even as it pushes the global economy deeper into existential crisis every day”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanityy #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
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#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #golfstates / #foreignpolicy / #hegemony / #abrahamaccords / #postwarorder
„The Arab Gulf and Israel Have Different Visions for a New Middle East.“
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/end-axis-abraham
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#US #Iran Sea Blockade: Talks Collapse; Iran Calls #Putin, #Lavrov To #China; #Budanov #Kiev Faces Disaster
#Geopolitics #MiddleEast #Mideast #IranWar #War #Hegemony #AlexanderMercouris #TheDuran
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Comment: Iran and an Islamic World Without a Political Center, Islami.co
Iran and an Islamic World Without a Political Center
By Virdika Rizky Utama, Islami.co, April 7, 2026
War often reveals things not apparent during peacetime. The conflict threatening Iran today not only highlights the tensions between Washington and Tehran. This development also makes apparent a more fundamental reality about the political state of the Islamic world. A region with a population of over one and a half billion people is facing a major geopolitical crisis without having a center of power capable of speaking on behalf of its common interest.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz immediately has many observers beginning to imagine the possibility of a broader military escalation. The narrow strait in the Persian Gulf is one of the world’s most crucial energy routes. Nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through these waters daily. Threats to the stability of this route immediately sparked international concern. Oil prices rose, and energy importing countries in Asia began to assess the potential economic risks that could arise.
World attention normally goes no further than the issue of energy and market stability. While this perspective is of course important, more interesting developments have become apparent about the political landscape of the region. The threat of major conflict in the heart of the Middle East has not resulted in meaningful political coordination among Muslim nations. Some governments have expressed concern through diplomatic statements, but these responses have not developed into more serious collective action.
This situation is no coincidence. The Islamic world is indeed experiencing a historical phase marked by profound political fragmentation. For centuries, there were power structures that provided a coordinating framework for vast areas with relatively similar civilizational identities. The Abbasid Caliphate played this role during the classical period. A similar role reappeared in the form of the Ottoman Caliphate which lasted until the early 20th century.
The collapse of the last caliphate in 1924 opened a new chapter in the region’s political history. The nation-state emerged as the dominant form of political organization in the Middle East and the Islamic world in general. This transformation gave birth to dozens of states with differing political orientations. The national interests of each country began to replace the framework of political solidarity that had previously existed.
Since then, the Islamic world has developed into a highly fragmented geopolitical space. Regional rivalries have shaped regional dynamics at different times. Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, for example, have often been fraught with prolonged tension. Over the past decade, Turkey has also pursued its own geopolitical agenda through an increasingly active foreign policy. Other Gulf states find themselves in a security configuration that relies heavily on the U.S.
This configuration makes a collective response to regional crises extremely difficult. Conflicts involving one Muslim country rarely generate broad strategic coordination among other states in the region. The solidarity of the Muslim community more often manifests itself in public sentiment and moral discussions. Political structures capable of translating this solidarity into shared policies are almost nonexistent.
This situation has been described in the international relations literature. Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order describes the Islamic world as a civilization lacking a single core state. Unlike other civilizations with a dominant center of power, the Muslim region comprises numerous states with their own regional ambitions. This image often sparks lengthy debate in the study of global politics, but the geopolitical reality of the Middle East in recent decades demonstrates that this description is not entirely inaccurate.
The absence of a political center makes the Middle East a frequent arena for global power struggles. The U.S. maintains a vast network of security alliances with a variety of Gulf states. Russia expands its influence through military involvement in the Syrian conflict. China also deepens economic ties with many countries in the region through investment and energy trade.
This great power competition is closely related to the region’s strategic value. The Middle East controls a significant portion of global energy reserves. Shipping lanes such as the Strait of Hormuz are crucial nodes in the global economic system. In his book Chokepoints, Edward Fishman explains that modern great powers often seek to control the global infrastructure hubs that determine trade and energy flows. Control over these hubs provides the ability to influence other countries’ economies without directly controlling territory.
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran demonstrate this geopolitical logic. Threats to the Strait of Hormuz immediately triggered a global response because the waterway determines the stability of the world’s energy supply. Asian countries, heavily dependent on oil from the Middle East, immediately felt the impact of any military developments in the region.
The Muslim world finds itself at the center of these dynamics without a political mechanism able to guide a collective response. Large populations and resource wealth do not automatically translate into collective political power. Muslim countries remain focused on their own national interests. Regional rivalries often deepen existing fragmentation.
The Iran crisis vividly demonstrates this reality. The threat of major conflict in the Muslim region has not generated significant political coordination among countries sharing a common civilizational identity. The Muslim world has witnessed the crisis unfolding from a relatively divided position.
This situation raises important questions about the future of regional politics. Without the ability to build stronger political coordination, any geopolitical crisis in the Middle East will continue to be influenced by the calculations of powers outside the Islamic world. Conflicts in Muslim regions will continue to be part of a broader global geopolitical game.
Wars often reveal layers of reality not visible during peacetime. The crisis threatening Iran today reveals more than just tensions between two countries. The developments reveal more fundamental questions about the political position of the Islamic world in the 21st-century global order.
Virdika Rizky Utama (x.com/virdikaa) is the Executive Director of PARA Syndicate (parasyndicate.org), a graduate of the Postgraduate Program in Political Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
This post is based on https://islami.co/iran-dan-dunia-islam-yang-kehilangan-pusat-politik/.
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Comment: Iran and an Islamic World Without a Political Center, Islami.co
Iran and an Islamic World Without a Political Center
By Virdika Rizky Utama, Islami.co, April 7, 2026
War often reveals things not apparent during peacetime. The conflict threatening Iran today not only highlights the tensions between Washington and Tehran. This development also makes apparent a more fundamental reality about the political state of the Islamic world. A region with a population of over one and a half billion people is facing a major geopolitical crisis without having a center of power capable of speaking on behalf of its common interest.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz immediately has many observers beginning to imagine the possibility of a broader military escalation. The narrow strait in the Persian Gulf is one of the world’s most crucial energy routes. Nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through these waters daily. Threats to the stability of this route immediately sparked international concern. Oil prices rose, and energy importing countries in Asia began to assess the potential economic risks that could arise.
World attention normally goes no further than the issue of energy and market stability. While this perspective is of course important, more interesting developments have become apparent about the political landscape of the region. The threat of major conflict in the heart of the Middle East has not resulted in meaningful political coordination among Muslim nations. Some governments have expressed concern through diplomatic statements, but these responses have not developed into more serious collective action.
This situation is no coincidence. The Islamic world is indeed experiencing a historical phase marked by profound political fragmentation. For centuries, there were power structures that provided a coordinating framework for vast areas with relatively similar civilizational identities. The Abbasid Caliphate played this role during the classical period. A similar role reappeared in the form of the Ottoman Caliphate which lasted until the early 20th century.
The collapse of the last caliphate in 1924 opened a new chapter in the region’s political history. The nation-state emerged as the dominant form of political organization in the Middle East and the Islamic world in general. This transformation gave birth to dozens of states with differing political orientations. The national interests of each country began to replace the framework of political solidarity that had previously existed.
Since then, the Islamic world has developed into a highly fragmented geopolitical space. Regional rivalries have shaped regional dynamics at different times. Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, for example, have often been fraught with prolonged tension. Over the past decade, Turkey has also pursued its own geopolitical agenda through an increasingly active foreign policy. Other Gulf states find themselves in a security configuration that relies heavily on the U.S.
This configuration makes a collective response to regional crises extremely difficult. Conflicts involving one Muslim country rarely generate broad strategic coordination among other states in the region. The solidarity of the Muslim community more often manifests itself in public sentiment and moral discussions. Political structures capable of translating this solidarity into shared policies are almost nonexistent.
This situation has been described in the international relations literature. Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order describes the Islamic world as a civilization lacking a single core state. Unlike other civilizations with a dominant center of power, the Muslim region comprises numerous states with their own regional ambitions. This image often sparks lengthy debate in the study of global politics, but the geopolitical reality of the Middle East in recent decades demonstrates that this description is not entirely inaccurate.
The absence of a political center makes the Middle East a frequent arena for global power struggles. The U.S. maintains a vast network of security alliances with a variety of Gulf states. Russia expands its influence through military involvement in the Syrian conflict. China also deepens economic ties with many countries in the region through investment and energy trade.
This great power competition is closely related to the region’s strategic value. The Middle East controls a significant portion of global energy reserves. Shipping lanes such as the Strait of Hormuz are crucial nodes in the global economic system. In his book Chokepoints, Edward Fishman explains that modern great powers often seek to control the global infrastructure hubs that determine trade and energy flows. Control over these hubs provides the ability to influence other countries’ economies without directly controlling territory.
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran demonstrate this geopolitical logic. Threats to the Strait of Hormuz immediately triggered a global response because the waterway determines the stability of the world’s energy supply. Asian countries, heavily dependent on oil from the Middle East, immediately felt the impact of any military developments in the region.
The Muslim world finds itself at the center of these dynamics without a political mechanism able to guide a collective response. Large populations and resource wealth do not automatically translate into collective political power. Muslim countries remain focused on their own national interests. Regional rivalries often deepen existing fragmentation.
The Iran crisis vividly demonstrates this reality. The threat of major conflict in the Muslim region has not generated significant political coordination among countries sharing a common civilizational identity. The Muslim world has witnessed the crisis unfolding from a relatively divided position.
This situation raises important questions about the future of regional politics. Without the ability to build stronger political coordination, any geopolitical crisis in the Middle East will continue to be influenced by the calculations of powers outside the Islamic world. Conflicts in Muslim regions will continue to be part of a broader global geopolitical game.
Wars often reveal layers of reality not visible during peacetime. The crisis threatening Iran today reveals more than just tensions between two countries. The developments reveal more fundamental questions about the political position of the Islamic world in the 21st-century global order.
Virdika Rizky Utama (x.com/virdikaa) is the Executive Director of PARA Syndicate (parasyndicate.org), a graduate of the Postgraduate Program in Political Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
This post is based on https://islami.co/iran-dan-dunia-islam-yang-kehilangan-pusat-politik/.
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(Warning: Risk of vomiting!)
„How America and Israel Can Shape a New Middle East.“
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2 Weeks In: Will Iran go the distance? ft. #Reza
#AngelicaOung #Taipology #Iran #USA #Israel #Geopolitics #Mideast #MiddleEast #Hegemony #Resistance
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2 Weeks In: Will Iran go the distance? ft. #Reza
#AngelicaOung #Taipology #Iran #USA #Israel #Geopolitics #Mideast #MiddleEast #Hegemony #Resistance
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The world is having to rethink rapidly its alliances, structures, organisations, and loyalties in the face of #Trump and the ongoing implosion of the #US.
This is not something that the US can recover from. After all of this, they can't just #elect someone different and expect the world to give it back the trust it has proven it is so unworthy of now.
The times, they are a-changin'.
They will require many countries, to work together in new and creative ways, collectively as well as individually, to stand up to the intolerable bully that is the murderous US.
Make no mistake, it is not just Trump that is the problem. Trump was elected BECAUSE the US is in the state it is.
They have no right to #hegemony or to consider themselves exceptional, unless perhaps exceptionally awful.
The #American experiment has failed, and for too long they have bullied the world into their lie of their fair so-called rules-based order. That lie is now destroyed.It is time for us all to establish a new future, one of cooperation, peace, and prosperity. It is time for us to set aside the endless demands of the belligerent US, and escape from its violent oppression.
"Now heaven and hell grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow."
-- The Crucible, Arthur Miller."There is a world elsewhere."
-- Coriolanus, Shakespeare.#USA #MAGA #rulesBasedOrder #europe #africa #china #russia #middleeast #japan #australia #canada #war #peace #putin #xijinping #starmer #uk
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"This article presents how global governance […] targets moved from sovereign to corporate entities and its source from multilateral financial institutions to domestic U.S. institutions. […] The article describes the recursive process that led the U.S. government to assume global regulatory powers and to initiate deglobalization in its trade war against the European Union and China."
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/719925 @economics#globalGovernance #Iran #history #war #boycott #geopolitics #sanctions #reputation #politics #publicOpinion #research #institutionsDeceive #economy #foreignRelations #multilateralism #deglobalization #hegemony
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"Placing the individual and his or her ability to free him or herself from a social world perceived as shameful is not particularly subversive; it is the most widespread mode of explanation today. Far from emancipation thinking with a more markedly collective character, which envisions classes in struggle against structural dominations, this ecology is a tool for social acceptance which is all the more effective in that it presents itself as an attainable and individually gratifying #alternative".
Aude Vidal in "Egologie : Ecologie, individualisme et course au bonheur" (Egology: ecology, individualism and the race for happiness) @anthropocene
#believe #faith #hope #ecology #sobriety #institutionsDeceive #Vidal #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #beliefs #hegemony