The President of the United States is breaking with the international system based on rules and the alliances that have marked the last 80 years. Never before has anyone done so much, so quickly, so ...

The phrase “New World Order” (NWO) has long evoked images of shadowy cabals and global domination. In early 2026, however, it has surged into mainstream discourse as a recurring keyword across news ...

I had been asked to give a key-note speech at a conference at Columbia University's Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre ...

We are transitioning from a globalization-focused world to one prioritizing resilience, autarky, and supply chain security. Heightened geopolitical risks and deglobalization support investment in ...

The press has had a field day packaging US President Donald Trump’s deposal of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro as a dramatic example of a new “Donroe Doctrine”: a foreign-policy posture blending ...

If the past few years marked the age of "polycrisis," then 2026 is the dawn of a new world disorder. This era of disorder is being defined not by rules for nations and rights for individuals, but ...

Mr. Shidore, the director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, writes extensively about geopolitics. Before the Trump administration turned its attention to ...