Carney’s Blunt Message to Davos: The Rules-Based Order Is Dead

‘Rules-based world order is gone,' Canada's Carney warns leaders at Davos

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos drew widespread attention online after he told world leaders that the old world order would not return.He said the rules-based world order was fading...

Canada’s Davos wake-up call for honesty rather than compliance

At Davos, Canada’s prime minister argued that the ‘rules-based order’ was always a useful fiction, but now the sign has to come down. Borrowing Václav Havel’s greengrocer parable, he warned that ‘go along to get along’ won’t buy safety in an age where tariffs, supply chains and finance are weapons. His pitch: middle powers aren’t helpless, but they need honesty, ‘value-based realism’, more strength at home and flexible coalitions abroad, because…

Carney’s blunt message to Davos: The rules-based order is dead

The Canadian prime minister said that countries have no choice but to create new alliances to oppose pressure tactics and intimidation by the world’s great powers.

Carney’s Message to the World: The Rules No Longer Protect You

In a blunt Davos address, the prime minister warns middle powers must prepare for a harsher geopolitical reality

Carney in Davos: 'The Old Order is Dead'... Long Live What, Exactly? - Policy Magazine

AP By Lisa Van Dusen January 20, 2026 In Davos on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney made a triumphant return to the Glastonbury of his people. After two decades of belonging to the global financial élite that gathers to solve the problems of the world (and sometimes has) in the Swiss Alps once a year, Carney returned to the World Economic Forum as a member of that most endangered political species of the New World Order — the elected leader of…