EDITORIAL For the past 20 years, we'been observing, analysing and anticipating as best we can the stages of the massive transition from a functional Western-centred world to a functional multipolar world, via a more or less prolonged phase of dysfunction. Between 2009 and 2014, we thought – or rather hoped – that Europe would play (given its recent history of pacifying a continent composed of a diversity of powerful actors with overlapping interests) the role of facilitator/catalyst for transition by helping the leading representative of the old model (the United States) to positively integrate the new dynamics of global geopolitical reconfiguration (BRICS). This was to underestimate the paralysis in decision-making within a structure that had, after all, been built by Europeans precisely so that they could play a part in the next major moments of world history… Thus, from 2014 onwards (the start of the Euro-Russian war), two things began to become clear: on the one hand, without the Europeans, the transition would be much longer and more violent; on the other hand, it would

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