![Cover for: Wests, East-Wests, and divides](https://www.eurozine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/f4ec410f5184c1cbde1c588d85c66324.jpg)
Europe today is divided not by developmental or systemic differences, but two competing ideologies. They cannot co-exist, like political parties, but must displace each other’s vision for the West. But while liberal democracies adhere to a liberal international order, and leaders like Orbán define the West in narrow ethnonationalist terms, a whole new East-West front opens up between the US and an ascendant China.