I believe the times ahead will be radically different from what most people have gotten used to—more like the era before 1945 ...

A flag of the United Nations flutters at the main entrance of the "Palais des Nations" building which houses the United Nations Office at Geneva, on Oct. 20, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via ...

During the coalition-building against Saddam Hussein, President George H.W. Bush had popularised the term “New World Order" to mean “where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve ...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 23 ...

In an earlier piece in The Wire, I laid out the driving forces and compulsions behind the coming together of major countries of the Global South and their attempt to forge different structures and ...

Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The conference took place February 13-15 and featured dire warnings about a breakdown in previous economic and military alliances. The Munich Security Conference marked the ...

The recently concluded annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York showcased American power in a changed international environment. A fractured international system ...

A superpower is zapping drug boats, on shaky legal premises, and snatching foreign leaders in the dead of night. From Greenland to Ukraine to the Himalayas, strong countries are redrawing — or ...

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio warned that the post-World War II global order is approaching a critical breaking point, calling recent conflicts and political shocks a part of a broader historical ...

It was December 1999, in the waning days of the 20th century, when tens of thousands of Americans from all walks of life descended on downtown Seattle to protest the five-year-old World Trade ...

After a period of stability shaped by the post-war world in place for most of the last century, the world order is shifting. How the changing world order may lead to a more volatile future After a ...