What shape do you see in the image above? Many of us have thought for a moment that we had found a unique shape in the silhouette of a rock, in a stain on the wall, in the dregs of our morning coffee, or even in a passing cloud. Because this is the illustration of a very rich chapter in the history of psychology, phenomenology and semiotics, signed by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the homonymous test that popularized it.

In a TED of the beginning of 2020, journalist and economist Mike O’Sullivan makes use of well-founded arguments to proclaim the end of the globalization era. Whatever the most interesting is not the announcement of what is being transposed, but of what begins to take form: a time when nation-states don’t follow a unique international order, but a multiplicity of them.