Fernanda Magnotta Ten events in 2022 signal that this year will never end 12/31/2022 13:52

Among several possible consensuses today is the reading that 2022 is a busy year. It will be commemorated by a series of historical events, the effects of which will resonate for a long time.

Thus the year ends, but the effects caused by the events occurring in it do not.

2022 will go down in the history of international relations as the year of great global instability, radicalism and political violence.

It has revealed the need to seek new compromises and mechanisms to address the threats posed to democratic institutions in different parts of the world and dissatisfaction as a society.

Here is a list of notable events that, despite their characteristics, have these common features:

1. The war in Ukraine and its geopolitical, humanitarian and economic effects,
2. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies as a result of gunfire.
3. Presidential elections in France and the strengthening of the far right in many European countries.
4. Queen Elizabeth’s death, doubts about the future of the monarchy in the UK, and a succession of prime ministers.
5. The elections in Angola, one of the most controversial in the country’s history, were marked by strife and accusations of fraud.
6. Tight legislative elections in the USA and the progress of the accusations against Donald Trump.
7. Reinstatement of Xi Jinping and strengthening of Chinese nationalism in China.
8. Uncertainties in Latin America: Gustavo Petro’s historic election in Colombia; the attack on Cristina Kirchner in Argentina and her subsequent conviction for corruption; In Peru, he tried to shut down Congress and remove Pedro Castillo from office.
9. The presidential elections in Brazil have been marked by polarization and increasing violence, including acts of domestic terrorism.
10. Protests in Iran with opposition to the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and violent government repression.

Despite the local roots and the links to the realities of each of these cases, the perception of people’s deteriorating quality of life, their relentless search for belonging, the accumulation of resentment and the attempt to outsource their own misery are behind many of the crises we have witnessed this year.

It was a pulse year. Affective drives and representations. Perhaps one of those years when Freud explained it better than political scientists. One of those years that never ends.