A New Anarchy? Scenarios for World Order Dynamics

... such communities as the EU and such countries as Japan drifting in the direction of strategic independence, the matrix of the international order may be headed for a total reset. The familiar pole of ‘the US plus allies’ no longer looks like a given.... ... dynamic regimes and therefore lead to fundamentally different outcomes than those originally intended. It is clear that the liberal order as it is today and was in the 1990s are two rather different systems, although we see them as one and the same thing ...