RULES BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (E.U.)
We recently turned to a book we had long set aside—Alexander Stubb’s The Triangle of Power. The current Finnish President has written an engaging work, yet our reflection here is less about the book itself than about a particular perspective it raises, one that has given us pause. Stubb presents a view common in Western discourse: that the post-Cold War liberal international order, founded on rules and multilateralism, was a force for global peace and prosperity, and that its restoration—or preservation, depending on one’s vantage point—is a worthy aspiration. ...