Historian on Trump’s new world order, Ukraine war and a Europe in crisis

Historian on Trump’s new world order, Ukraine war and a Europe in crisis

Luuk van Middelaar is the director of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, a think tank he co-founded in 2022. A political theorist and historian by trade, he has written several books and was in the cabinet of the first European Council president, Herman Van Rompuy. Van Middelaar is widely read and cited across Europe for his analysis of the EU’s political evolution, with his books translated into many languages and awarded major European li…

What the collapse of the world order means for Asia

The collapse of the global order will not begin with a war in Asia but with the realization that rules no longer bind the strong and alliances no longer oblige the powerful. At Davos, European and Canadian leaders did not merely criticize US policy; they questioned the durability of the postwar system itself. President Donald Trump's renewed threats over Greenland made the rupture explicit. Whether carried out or not, the message was unmistakabl…