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Until yesterday, there weren’t any metamorphosis in the Western front line. However, this is not the case anymore. Long years have elapsed over this novel, which in a sense inspired the heading of this analysis and linkages established by the West are all water under the bridge.

Frankly speaking, things are not going well for the West. In the strict sense, the West is in the process of disintegration primarily attributed to its core values; Racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia all under the banner of Crusader spirit. The return of the West to these historical maxims brings with it many new alienations, and it is naïve to believe that it confines only to the Islamic World.

Likewise, as defections endure in the West, a process of reckoning within itself has already been paved up. This situation does not hold rational function in Western retention because it has not been in such stalemate since the end of the World War era. This situation is considered as a quantum leap.

For this reason, it is essential to conceive the dictum of the circumstances-frameworks that lead to this decline. This is because the parameters seem to lead us to an alternative meaning.

Recent momentous developments that flout our mnemonic can be listed as follows:

  1. The end of the Cold War, connoted by the collapse of the Berlin Wall during the disintegration of the USSR, transpires the first major breakthrough, which contrary to expectations forfeited the monopoly of the US and therefore the West to become a global power.
  2. The reinforced East factor and in this context, the establishment of a de facto Alliance between China, Russia, Iran and Turkey, that defies the West.
  3. Besides being an agitation, these countries are further expanding their presence in their historical-geographical domain and immediate vicinity, thus restricting the manoeuvrability of the West and aim to abolish their omnipresence completely.
  4. Concordantly, the emergence of a leadership conundrum in the West due to the shortcomings of the US both globally and in the West.
  5. Significant frustration in economic and financial terms and the fact that the 2008 economic crisis has not being eluded completely, has led to the resurrection of nation-state understanding in the West.
  6. The pursuit of multipolarity in the Western World and the intention of being part of it.

What does the resignation of the French Chief of General Staff imply?

The internal struggle-disintegration in the West is deeper and more severe. Brexit, in this sense, is the tip of the iceberg in the ongoing struggle and taking the latest developments into account, this division will prompt a new dimension to Evangelism.

The first explicit questioning of these circumstances came from the US and metamorphosed into a defining moment with the United Kingdom and Brexit. If Germany and France in the strictest sense can act as independent countries, the situation will take culminate into a different dimension. This is because there is a far-reaching roust in both countries.

The resignation of Chief of Staff; General Pierre de Villiers, which emerged as a last-minute occurrence at this point, is critical. Although the resignation seems to stem as a consequence of tug-of-war between the Chief of General Staff and President Macron, the following two facts revived in the press mean much: 1. Stark perception contrast, 2. Objection of the Chief of General Staff on some of President Macron’s policies.

The next article will elaborate in detail the French perspective which constitutes the vital point of matter to what the policy changes mean and Macron’s actions and their outcomes on the French state-society structure.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin EROL
Born in 1969, Dörtyol-Hatay, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Seyfettin Erol graduated from Boğaziçi University (BU), Department of Political Science and International Relations in 1993. After completing his master's degree at BU in 1995, Erol was accepted to the PhD program at BU in the same year. After completing his PhD at Ankara University in 2005, Erol became an associate professor in the field of “International Relations” in 2009 and a professor in 2014. Erol worked at the Eurasian Center for Strategic Studies (ASAM) between 2000 and 2006 and and served as the General Coordinator of ASAM for a period. In 2009, he served as also Founding Chairman and Board Member of the Institute for Strategic Thinking (SDE). He is also the Founding President of the Center for International Strategy and Security Studies (USGAM) and the President of the International Relations Institute of the New Türkiye Strategic Research Center (YTSAM). Prof. Erol has also served as the Director of Gazi University Strategic Research Center (GAZISAM). In 2007, Prof. Erol received the “Turkish World Service Award” from the Writers and Artists Foundation of the Turkic World (TÜRKSAV), and has received numerous awards for his academic work and his activities in the media. Some of them can be listed as follows: 2013 “Print Media of the Year Award” by the Association of Contemporary Democrats, 2015 “APM 10th Year Service Award”, “2015 Press-Intellectual of the Year Award” by the Writers' Union of Türkiye (YTB), “2016 Volunteer Ambassadors Media Honor Award” by the Anatolian Village Guards and Martyrs' Families, “2016 Türkiye Honor Award” by the Yoruk Turkmen Federations. Prof. Erol has 15 book studies. The names of some of them are as follows: “The United States of Turks from Dream to Reality”, “Türkiye-EU Relations: Foreign Policy and Internal Structure Problems”, “The New Great Game in Eurasia”, “The Search for Strategy in Turkish Foreign Policy”, “The Search for Security in Turkish Foreign Policy”, “The Republic of Türkiye-Russian Federation Relations”, “The Cold Organization of Hot Peace: The New NATO”, “Theoretical Approaches in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Case of Turkish Foreign Policy”, “Crises and Crisis Management: Actors and Case Studies”, “Kazakhstan” and “Current Issues in International Relations”. Since 2002, Prof. Erol, who has carried out radio programs such as “Eurasia Agenda”, “Strategic Perspective”, “Global Perspective”, “Analysis”, “File”, “News Desk”, “The Other Side of the Agenda” on TRT Türkiye's voice and TRT Radio 1 (Ankara Radio), made the programs “Arayış” on TRT INT television between 2004-2007, “Beyond the Border” on Kanal A television between 2007-2010 and “Foreign Policy Agenda” on BBN TÜRK television in 2020-2021. Prof. Erol, whose foreign policy column “Arayış” was published in Milli Gazete between 2012-2018, is consulted for his expertise in numerous national and international media outlets such as television, radio, newspapers, news websites and magazines. Prof. Erol, who also taught at Gazi University Department of International Relations and Ankara University Latin American Studies Center (LAMER) between 2006-2018, has been continuing his academic career as a faculty member at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University Department of International Relations since 2018. Since 2006, Prof. Erol has also taught in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ufuk University. The main areas of interest and expertise of Prof. Erol and the titles of his courses at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels in this area are as follows: “Geopolitics”, “Security”, “Intelligence”, “Crisis Management”, “Current Issues in International Relations”, “Turkish Foreign Policy”, “Russian Foreign Policy”, “US Foreign Policy” and “Central Asia and South Asia”. Prof. Erol, whose articles-evaluations have been published in many journals and newspapers, has been editor of academic journals such as “Eurasia File”, “Strategic Analysis”, “Strategic Thinking”, “Gazi Regional Studies”, “The Journal of SSPS”, “Black Sea Studies”. He is currently in the editorial boards of “Regional Studies,” “International Crisis and Political Research,” “Gazi Academic View”, “Ege University Turkish World Surveys”, “Ankara International Social Sciences”, “Democracy Platform”. Prof. Erol, who has been working as the Founding President of the Ankara Center for Crisis and Political Studies (ANKASAM) since 2016, is married and has three children.