Competing Visions of International Order - Responses to US Power in a Fracturing World
The ‘liberal international order’ that has been predominant, if often controversial, since 1945, is being challenged as never before. This reflects factors both long-standing and recent: the rise of China; the frustrations and ambitions of countries - including many in the Global South - that associate the US-led liberal international order with deep hypocrisy; inequality within liberal democracies that has given rise to populism; Russian revanchism; and perhaps above all, the US’s more nationalist outlook and disruptive foreign policy since Donald Trump took office for the second time in early 2025. In this article for
Chatham House, Leslie Vinjamuri, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Chietigj Bajpaee et
al take stock of these developments, examine the US’s changing role and ambitions as a global power, and explore how eleven other key states are adapting.
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