Dov H. Levin
The post-Cold War liberal rule-based international order is now increasingly acknowledged to be either dead or in a coma. Some Trump Administration officials claim that a calculated plan to destroy the old order lies behind the administration’s seemingly chaotic approach to foreign affairs. Naturally, the question arises as to what has led to the liberal order’s death or near-death experience at such a young age, well before making it to 40.
One would have expected a somewhat longer life from an international order that was supposed to come after the “End of History”. A variety of explanations for this early demise have been offered, blaming, for example, the coming to power of Trump, as well as the rise of China, the 2008 global financial crisis and the “forever wars”. However, the problem with the liberal order was that its’ own design was fatally flawed from the start. It was liberal by flowery pronouncement and occasional policy, but not in its own structure.
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