By F. Andrew Wolf, Jr.
A new refrain has emerged in the geopolitics of global affairs: the “changing world order.” While numerous articles bear witness to its reality, what has been largely missed is that it’s already upon us.
The decline of unipolarity, long predicted, has begun. The leaders of the United States, since the advent of the post-Cold War era, have been strong advocates (along with Britain and Brussels) of liberal globalism. Under Donald J. Trump, however, Realpolitik has re-emerged in America, driven by transactional pragmatism rather than ideology. Thus, the new leadership has ceased trying to stonewall the inevitable shift towards a multipolar world.
The pivot is not a mere campaign promise or political theatre. It is a structural break with the past. In the space of weeks, the US has gone from resisting the idea of a multipolar order to…
