In his new book, “Giopolitics: Vision from the South”, issued last April in Morocco by the “Salma Cultural Library”, Dr. Hussein Majdoubi does not provide a theoretical luxury or academic exercise to analyze a geopolitical map that has become moving and turbulent, but rather a declaration in its essence. Announcement of an intellectual necessity, the argument of civilized awareness, and a formulation of a situation that puts “nations of the south” at the heart of the international equation, not in its margin.
It is an explicit call for deciphering mental and political dependency, and freedom from ready -made classifications issued by the centers of power in the north with a clear domination and superiority. It is also an invitation to independence of awareness of the thinking fund, which coined its central and colonial perceptions.
The book does not deny the size of the challenges, and does not ignore the reality of divisions between the peoples of the south, but it believes that this diversity, if I manage a mature pragmatic vision and a clear and resistant independent sense, can turn from a breakdown factor into a complementary and constructive factor. What brings the peoples of the south more than what separates them: from a common colonial memory, to a fragile economic reality, aspiration towards independence and sovereignty over the decision and destiny.
What the book is unveiling is that there is a scourge that hinders real independence, which is the scourge of consciousness that begins, especially among thinkers, by editing concepts and perceptions from political, intellectual, and deliberative dependency, and even metaphysical.
South as a actor, not as an object
This work is issued by the concept of “geopolitics” not only as an analysis tool, but also as a basis for formulating a Renaissance project that emanates from the privacy of the south, and puts its interests in the forefront.
The book is based on a historical perspective, and he sees that the south consists of nations of ancient history, which contributed to the establishment of human civilization and its pillars, and the longest time, such as the civilization of Mesopotamia, the civilization of the Pharaohs, the civilization of Yemen, the Islamic civilization, and the civilizations of the Aztek and Mama in the southern and central American continent.
Nations have emerged from these civilizations that continue to exist in one form or another in our current era, and are inspired by their prosperous and glorious history, the moral incentive and the geopolitical compass to build the future.
In this sense, the book is not satisfied with diagnosing the disturbed relationship between the north and south, but rather a vital perception of building a strategic bloc that includes the countries of the south, a political, economic, cultural, scientific and military bloc, capable of steadfastness in the face of the new exploitation, and the negotiation of the club with the major powers.
In addition to the deep and rooted awareness that prevails among the peoples of the nations of the south, making them worthy of carrying the projects of major unity, the presence of regional blocs in the Arab world, the African Sahel region, Latin America, and the Middle East, constitutes a solid pillar and a strategic launch of the coordination path, on the horizon of developing an integrated and effective coordination for the south’s nations.
A unified strategic project
The term “nations of the south”, which the writer formulates with a mature analytical experience that has accumulated with his long press experience, and a systematic conscious consciousness devoted to him with his deep and parallel academic preoccupation, is not just a geographical designation, but rather a liberal and critical concept that restores consideration of a long history of civilizational contributions, and resists Western classifications such as “third world” or “globalized south” or “backward countries”.
The writer believes that these terms, and if they seem to be apparently neutral, are saturated with the logic of hegemony, and a tendency that is formulated by the West to justify its control, and to determine the positions of strength and weakness in the world over its whims.
And to protect awareness of the importance of this intellectual and political process and its strategy within any liberal perception, the book discusses the roots of these classifications, and shows how some – such as the “globalized south” or “backward countries” – is nothing but an extension of the post -colonial thought that is incomplete, where the south is still seen as an area of intervention, not an independent act.
It seems that the book warns the reader that there is an urgent need for a cognitive and practical act that blocks the conceptual void that grew up into a space in the post -colonial void.
As if it is hinting that the need for perceptions and two practices, intellectual and political together, is located “post -colonial”, to start from there a liberation process that prevails in liberation terms inherent in the soil of the south. In its view, these are concepts that will lead to an inherent turn regarding the post -colonial stage, and they must be with concepts generated by the uterus of the traded field of the south.
A new awareness in the face of hegemony
Perhaps what is also drawn attention is also to see the book stands at an exciting paradox, turns into consideration and examining it, to produce in its wake awareness that the integration of some major powers, Russia and China, within the “South” in some theses, remains really folding facts that do not see many.
Here, the writer restores the positions of concepts and their arrangement according to that hidden awareness, to confirm that the “South” is not just a location on a map, but rather a location within the balance of global power. China And Russia, despite their relative proximity to the issues of the south, keeps two effective and independent powers, moving with the logic of their interests, not with the logic of a southern liberal bloc.
One of the most important calls of the book is that to universities and intellectual institutions in the countries of the south to advance its role in producing geopolitical knowledge. As long as the south remains the theories and perceptions produced by the Western Center, it will not be able to build its own perception of itself and the world.
He thus casts a rope of responsibility on universities in the liberation project, warns of its great role in this liberation process, and its concerns rise to liberate itself from the productive unemployment in which it is drowned. It is not possible to achieve a civilized leap without having an independent geopolitical vision established by such institutions, and takes into account history and identity, as is the present and the future.
The book does not call for a cultural break, but rather urges to benefit from Western culture and China’s cultures, but without turning into a hostage of perceptions that are not suitable for the south, which are sometimes with a negative load of the nations of the south when adopting and applying them in various fields.
Hence, the book says, the importance of elements such as the media, historical memory, industrial sovereignty, peaceful nuclear energies, and artificial intelligence, are all basic tools within the geopolitical independence project that it calls for.
It evokes the experiences of multiple countries, such as the war industry in Türkiye, and media production Luqat A representative of the island, the nuclear project For Pakistan Iran, the African orientation of Morocco instead of the permanent bet on its Western relations, mainly Europe, and the development of Algeria for the concept of historical memory of accountability France On the era of colonialism.
In connection with the last point, the writer intends to link the past with the present, and is considered in the chapter entitled “The War of Historical Memory” that in exchange for the West’s pride in carrying a civilized message to the peoples through the colonial process, which is a decoration of colonialism, on the south, a unified discourse calling for material compensation for long decades from looting the wealth of the nations of the south and killing their peoples.
This links to the necessity of extracting this compensation by stopping the payment of a large part of the debt that the south suffers from, which has turned into an indirect new colonialism.
Western veto: red lines in the face of the Renaissance of the South
Among the insightful chapters in the book, highlighting a chapter.Nuclear energyAnd “the arms industry.” It is explained in the first how the West has a geopolitical doctrine represented in preventing the nations of the south from having nuclear projects, even if they are peaceful or directed towards water desalination. The author sees that International Atomic Energy Agency It represents a tool in the hands of the West similar to the “Saif Democalis”, which does not aim to regulate the peaceful use of nuclear energy as much as it harnesses to prevent the countries of the south, especially those belonging to different cultures such as Arab and Islamic countries, from possessing this technology.
The existence of a clear Western concern about the development of advanced military industries in some countries of the south, such as Türkiye And Iran And Pakistan. In this context, it indicates that the Russian-Ukrainian war has become a test field for this type of weapon, as it is used Russia Iranian marches, while dependent Ukraine on Drivers aircraft And Turkish bombs.
And he confirms that the West seeks to impose a kind of “veto” on any attempt by the south to develop military industries or possess nuclear energy, considering these practices as a flagrant expression of a civilized conflict through which the West wants to preserve its permanent superiority, especially towards the Islamic world.
The book goes on, explaining how the West is ready to launch wars against the south if necessary, as this is considered a red line that should not be overcome. In the midst of its treatment, the book decides that the West will not allow the repeated state of Pakistan and its nuclear bottle, which formed the exception in the time of “geopolitical negligence”.
What Dr. Hussein Majdoubi put forward from punishing the West to every country from the south that wants to own the nuclear project, we live in its chapter now through the war announced by the West And Israel Against the Iranian nuclear project, it extends to an attempt to control the missile industry so that there is no country capable of participating in making the geopolitical map in The Middle East.
After his book “Morocco in Spanish Thought”, published two years ago, in which he analyzed the relationship between two countries belonging to two different cultures and how they form and teach mutual perceptions to the level of historical clash, the book of the new author becomes “Giopolitic: a vision from the south” is not just an analysis, but it is a new thinking map, and a serious attempt to draw the features of a civilized project that restores consideration to the south as an inventory force, not as a neglected space. It is a voice from inside the south, which addresses his family first, and says: We do not ask to confess, but rather build ourselves. We do not wait for recommendations, but rather decide our destiny.