, Columnist
America’s Global Order Is in Retreat
China and Russia would love to see the collapse of liberal internationalism.
All empires fall.
Photographer: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
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(This is the second installment of a series on challenges facing the U.S.-led international liberal order. Read the first and third parts here: America’s Global Order Is Worth Fighting For | America’s Global Order Can Be Saved.)
The “liberal international order” is not a myth, but that doesn’t mean it lacks for problems. In my previous column, I explained what the liberal order is, how and why the U.S. led its creation, what it has accomplished, and why the strongest recent critiques of it are overblown. Yet those critics nonetheless get one thing right: The liberal order is facing a barrage of pressures.