“…Vision-building thereby must be grounded in multilateral system thinking along the milestone-agendas, precising the UN Charter, allowing for and fostering subordinated wings. As stated above, lessons from Afghanistan and maybe Mali shall ideally trigger a renewal of the global peace architecture: The way forward could be framed by more resilient action, localized prioritisation and crisis preparedness in a smaller than global scale or, in other words, to strive for regional strategic autonomy to counteract bipolarism (Werther-Pietsch 2021 a, pp. 133–135).…”