International relations scholars tend to divide history into epochs defined by the distribution of power. The multipolarity of the 20th-century interwar period created an order in which geopolitical ...

How did the liberal international order crumble? Like Hemingway’s famous description of bankruptcy: gradually, then suddenly. Since the early 2000s, observers, analysts and practitioners of global ...

Nothing lasts forever: Every international order finds its end. Pax Romana stabilized the greater Mediterranean world, until decline set in. The British global order flourished in the 19th century but ...

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at the end of the NATO Summit, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025 (AP photo by Alex Brandon). In the six months since U.S. President ...

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been cast by many observers as the end of an era. The U.S.-led order, variously described as the rules-based order or the liberal international order, ...

An American president, a convicted felon, welcomed, for the third time this year, an indicted Israeli war criminal to the White House; further sullying what remains of America’s standing in the world.

For decades after the end of World War II, the phrase "liberal international order" was often associated with a few things: globalization, multilateralism and a rules-based global system anchored by U ...

From the ashes of World War II, President Harry Truman presided over the creation of global institutions that have defined the international order for the past 80 years. "It must be the policy of the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac ...

In recent years, US officials framed conflicts involving Russia and China as existential threats to that order, arguing that defending it justified sanctions, military aid and economic containment.