From Kissinger’s Nightmare to European Quagmire

The emerging multipolarity and its acceptance by the great powers could recreate the conditions necessary for the functioning of international law and a relatively peaceful world. And the U.S. and other Western societies can benefit from this, too. Aris Roussinos is right that “just as the bipolar order of the Cold War world, by restraining liberalism’s inherent tendencies to radicalization and hubris, made the Western world safe for a tempered and moderate liberalism, so may the multipolar world we have entered save liberals from their own excesses. Beset by confident rivals abroad, and by the disenchantment of their voters at home, liberals will once again have to learn restraint” (Roussinos, 2024)

Cold war · Disenchantment · Foreign policy · Nightmare · Radicalization · Global Security and Public Health · Globalization and political ideologies · International Relations and Foreign Policy