Power, justice, and the decolonization of the global order

The end of the unipolar illusion Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the global order that emerged in its aftermath is visibly fraying. What was once proclaimed as a stable “rules-based international system” dominated by the United States and its Western allies now appears fragile, contested, and morally compromised. The unipolar moment that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union was widely interpreted as the final triumph of liberal capitalism. Yet history has rarely been so obedient to ideological declarations. The ongoing confrontation involving Iran and the United States has brought this crisis into sharp relief. Recent events demonstrate that power in the twenty-first century is no longer defined solely by military supremacy, but by the capacity […]