Building a Middle-Power World Order

Building a Middle-Power World Order

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is right to warn that the old global order has ruptured, and that middle powers must now come together to advance shared interests. They can do so by embracing the principles guiding narrower multilateral arrangements that have proved more effective than many realize.

To survive the new global order, international organsations must think like “middle-powers”

At Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney finally said what was on everyone’s mind: the global order is dead and the dream of liberalism now rests with the middle-powers. As the US abdicates its role as a facilitator and chooses economic and ideological coercion above cooperation, the world risks being carved into “spheres of influence”. […]