rules based order

RULES BASED ORDER 2 APR 2026

From world order to global jungle

The decline and fall of the so-called post-war rules-based international order has quickly moved from prophecy or speculation to directly observable fact.

RULES BASED ORDER 6 OCT 2023

The ‘rules-based international order’ is a myth – and the sooner the West wakes up to this the safer we will be

There is an old quip by Voltaire about the Holy Roman Empire, pointing out that it was nothing of the sort: neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.