International Order Will Be Rudderless, Not Dead

International order will be rudderless, not dead

By turning inwards, the US has paved the way for China to take on a more prominent role in global affairs.

The Liberal International Order Ruptures

Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy has accelerated the collapse of the postwar liberal international order by abandoning its institutions, norms, and sources of legitimacy. Economic integration is now widely used as a tool of coercion, placing middle powers in an unstable interregnum defined by great-power rivalry, forced alignment choices, and a widening contrast between U.S. unilateralism and China’s defense of globalization and multila…