Michael Kovrig
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a strategic emancipation proclamation. The international order is rupturing, he candidly assessed, forcing small and midsize countries to make hard and undignified choices as they struggle to survive in a world of bullying great powers. The imagined community sustained by universal rules, international law, and multilateral institutions never fully constrained these giants, but now even the pretense that it can is in tatters.
“The world has changed. Washington has changed. There is almost nothing normal now in the United States,” Carney told Canada’s House of Commons at the end of a particularly stormy January.
No comments:
Post a Comment