The Revenge of Hard Power Politics

• The liberal world order was never an inevitability.

Only five years ago, the world still looked like a liberal internationalist’s dream.

• Andrew A. Michta
• The American Interest

Although jihadist terror periodically tested the resilience of governments and societies across the globe, open borders and free trade were widely touted as the way forward.

In the context of post-Cold War unipolarity, many in academia, think tanks, and the media wanted to believe that the “first universal nation” could shape world politics in its image, and that a…

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