Cameron Leckie’s The Crusade Against Multipolarity is a sweeping and unapologetically critical analysis of the West’s current foreign policy trajectory. Far from treating Gaza, Ukraine, Iran, Syria, and tensions with China as disconnected crises, Leckie weaves them into a single thread: an ideological and geopolitical struggle by the “collective West” to resist the rise of a multipolar world order.
Leckie frames this as a “Crusade” – both in the modern sense of a zealous campaign and in the historical sense of a Western-led expedition against perceived challengers. Drawing on economic history, he reminds readers that China and India dominated global GDP for most of the past two millennia, and that the recent U.S.-led unipolar moment is an aberration now giving way to Eurasian resurgence. The result, he argues, is an existential crisis for Western elites, prompting proxy wars, sanctions, propaganda, and regime change efforts that are increasingly failing.
Australia is cast as a sub-imperial player—habitually aligned with U.S. policy, even to the point of self-harm. Leckie warns that clinging to this “anachronistic” alignment risks catastrophe, particularly if Canberra stumbles into war with China over Taiwan.
Insightful and provocative, Leckie’s piece challenges comfortable narratives and demands an uncomfortable question: is Australia’s foreign policy serving its people, or merely propping up a fading imperial order?
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Review of “The Crusade Against Multipolarity” by Cameron Leckie
Cameron Leckie argues that today’s global conflicts are part of a coordinated Western effort to resist the rise of a multipolar world, with Australia playing a willing sub-imperial role.
What I believe we are witnessing is the collective West’s pursuit of a ‘Crusade against Multipolarity.