Hal Brands, Columnist

America’s Global Order Is Worth Fighting For

The longest period of great-power peace in modern history is not a “myth.”

Armed anachronism?

Photographer: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

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(This is the first installment of a series of columns on the threat to the U.S.-led liberal international order. Read the second and third parts here: America’s Global Order Is in Retreat | America’s Global Order Can Be Saved.)

The “liberal international order” is one of those phrases that means everything to people inside the Washington policy community and absolutely nothing to anyone outside of it.