Daria Gușă Launches Her First Book: “The Barometer of Geopolitical Power and the New World Order”
The Romanian geopolitical analyst, Daria Gușă, has officially announced the launch of her debut book, “The Barometer of Geopolitical Power and the New World Order”, published in collaboration with Editura Creator a- now available for preorder on Libris.ro. The announcement was made during her weekly show “Geopolitica la Zi” on GOLD FM, where Gușă revealed both the intellectual roots of the project and her motivation to create a new analytical tool for understanding today’s rapidly shifting world order.
“The idea came to me almost a year ago,” Daria Gușă recalled during the broadcast. “I was on a skiing trip with my father, discussing the fact that there’s no realistic way to quantify geopolitical power today. Western analysts still tend to present the U.S. and Europe as stronger than they truly are, while experts in Russia or China define power by their own selective criteria. So I decided to create, through my academic background, a more complex and objective instrument for evaluating the world’s major powers, a kind of ranking that truly reflects where each stands today.”
That conversation marked the beginning of an ambitious intellectual journey, one that combines academic rigor with clarity and accessibility.
The result is a book that only explains the decline of the U.S.-led global order, and also offers a practical framework for understanding how states exercise power across military, economic, technological, and civilizational dimensions.
“The Barometer of Geopolitical Power and the New World Order” is a comprehensive yet reader-friendly analysis that examines how the world’s great powers (the United States, China, and Russia) compete to shape the 21st century’s spheres of influence.
“This project is very close to my heart,” Gușă explained. “It was a genuine pleasure to write. And for readers who aren’t experts in geopolitics, don’t be intimidated, it’s not written in an academic tone. It’s meant to be accessible to anyone who has followed international events, even a little, over the past few decades. For specialists, I can guarantee you’ll still discover new insights and fresh perspectives.”
The book offers a clear, unflinching look at the dynamics behind the ongoing restructuring of global power: the rivalry between the U.S. and China, Russia’s assertive return to the global stage, Europe’s loss of strategic sovereignty, and the renewed contest for influence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
In its analytical core, the book deconstructs the widely used but poorly defined notion of the “New World Order.” Gușă traces its origins to the post–Cold War dominance of the United States, showing how the unipolar moment of the 1990s gradually gave way to a multipolar balance shaped by competition for critical resources, technology, and regional dominance.
The book also introduces an original methodology, the “Barometer of Geopolitical Power, which quantifies a nation’s strength across multiple measurable parameters: military and technological capacity, control over trade routes and global supply chains, currency dominance, energy resources, and the ability to influence regional crises and civilizational narratives.
Through this framework, Gușă evaluates where each global player truly stands, from the military-industrial complex of the United States to China’s Belt and Road infrastructure power, Russia’s resource-based resilience, and even Romania’s positioning within a complex and shifting European context.
Gușă argues that behind the official rhetoric about democracy, liberty, and international cooperation, a cold and calculated confrontation is taking place, one that determines who will draw the new borders of global influence.
“The Barometer of Geopolitical Power is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the true power games of the 21st century,” the publisher’s note reads. “It explains how globalization, technology, and resource competition redefine the hierarchy of nations, and what that means for countries like Romania, caught between East and West.”
Daria Gușă’s academic background lends authority and depth to her work. A graduate of the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom, she holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies.
Her professional experience includes internships at the United Nations, the European Parliament, and several research centers in London and Dubai. Over the past years, she has built a reputation in media and academia alike for her articulate analyses of East–West power interactions and her ability to translate complex geopolitical dynamics into engaging public discussions.
Her focus on the borderlands between civilizations, where military infrastructure, ideology, and economic power intersect, gives her work a distinctive edge. Few analysts of her generation manage to combine such academic grounding with clarity and public appeal.
Gușă’s writing bridges the gap between academia and the general reader. It invites audiences to think beyond the headlines, and to understand the deeper structural forces shaping our world.
Readers can already preview excerpts on Libris.ro, where the book’s sample pages reveal a clear, well-structured style, balancing rigorous analysis with narrative flow. The volume will officially ship starting November 24, with upcoming launch events planned in several Romanian cities.
by I. Constantin
