Four reasons global geopolitics have gone haywire
The world has moved on from the days of the ‘Pax Americana’ era, but not in a good way
It’s not you; global politics really have been going haywire lately. And while each geopolitical story has its own set of actors and circumstances driving their respective drama, the thread that unites them is an absence of global leadership out there to keep things in geopolitical check.
The world has moved on from the “Pax Americana” era of global history — one in which the US used both its economic and military heft to ensure a basic level of global stability and to co-ordinate global responses to global problems among like-minded allies — into a “geopolitical recession”, an unwind of the old global order...
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