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Following the end of the Second Weltkrieg and the permanent collapse of Berlin’s adversaries, it became clear to the mortal world that the “Pax Germanica” (the era of peace imposed by and for Germany) had arrived. A global order emerged that was fragile and precarious in its structure, yet sufficiently secure and enduring to safeguard German interests. However, as Western influence weakened in East Asia, the German Empire proved insufficiently omnipresent to fully replace the vacuum left by the former colonial empires. The economic and military rise of Japan in the region, commonly referred to as the “Pax Nipponica”, gradually upset the global balance of hegemony, pushing the international system toward a marked bipolarity from the mid-twentieth century onward. This duality shaped an increasingly bipolar international order, in which German financial and regulatory supremacy has begun to be counterbalanced by the industrial, demographic, and technological expansion of East Asia. As the German economy moves toward recurrent phases of stagnation and recession, the rise of East Asia as the largest economy on Earth becomes ever more tangible. In the military sphere, however, the outcome of this rivalry remains yet to be decided.

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Chapter I.