GLOBAL GEO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND TO THE PERSIAN WAR OF 2026
Here is a reconstruction of the recent more-than-seven-decade geo-political-economic history of the relative global geo-economic positions of the three principal participants of the Persian War of 2026, as of 10:30 CET, February 28, 2026. The graphs below are based on Angus Maddison's widely used, long-durée global estimates for economic performance. They depict data for each country's economic performance. The horizontal axis is GDP estimates for each country as percentage of the world total for the given year . The vertical` axis shows per capita GDP for each country as percentage of the world mean for the given year . For rough orientation, the darker region in the middle of the graph marks the semiperiphery [S] . (For most readers in the post-state-socialist "world": That is where most of our region has been throughout this period) defined here empirically (and of course arbitrarily) as 50% < [S] < 200% --i.e., roughly, the middle-income region of the wo...
