The blitzkrieg of American transactional inside-looking coercive policies since the turn of Donald Trump at the White House risks plunging international relations back to a world of interest-driven anarchy, and conflictual alliances.
Since the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new world order informed by the need to forge cooperative world relations emerged from the ashes of war and severe suffering.
The imperfections of the liberal world order singularly dominated by Western powers raised calls for its democratisation to create inclusive multilateralism rooted in cooperation and interdependence on the back of the significant role of emerging powers.
A new era of interdependence and cooperation recognising the national sovereignty and independence of all states, however big or small, as canonised in the Charter…
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Star South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2025-03-19