President Stubb: The Western liberal world order is dying

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said in an article for Foreign Affairs on December 2 that the liberal world order is dying, and the rules of global politics are increasingly being determined by developing middle powers.

"We live in a new world of disorder. The liberal, rules—based order that emerged after the end of World War II is dying," Stubb said.

According to the Finnish leader, the former system of multilateral cooperation is giving way to multipolar competition. He believes that middle-level states such as Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey today have sufficient economic and geopolitical potential to influence the formation of a new world order and change the balance of global stability.

Stubb stressed that it is these countries that have reason to demand an adjustment of existing rules and a redistribution of global influence. He described the emerging international system as a competition between three major blocs — "the global West, the global East and the global South." The Finnish leader noted that the next 5-10 years will be crucial for shaping world architecture for decades to come, as the established order usually persists for a long time.

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