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 ...

Kaja Kallas and Ursula von der Leyen.

The purpose of the League of Nations and later the UN was to bring the world together and allow for discussion rather than war. The reality of the latter body is that it has been a disaster, its ...

Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of ...

“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Carney said, urging mid-sized nations to unite against the economic pressure imposed by global powers. “The old order is not coming back, and we ...

There was a time when school children memorized famous speeches. Perhaps, in some places of education, they still do. Hopefully, today’s curriculum at least supports reading and studying the words of ...

Governments and members of the European parliament have criticized the Commission president for overstepping her bounds on ...

new video loaded: ‘If You’re Looking for Order, You’ll Never See It’ transcript Davos may have felt like the end of the old world order, but the historian Adam Tooze isn’t confident that what comes ...

It must be stated quite clearly right at the get go that the recently much touted new world order does not exist at this point in time. At best, it can only be said to be in the offing. Having said ...

With all the propaganda surrounding the causes and eventually, the outcome of the Second World War, one would think that the United States and Britain were solely responsible for defeating Hitler.