The liberal international order – 15 tweets from @RobinNiblett, who writes in @ForeignAffairs latest issue – click this tweet for the threadpic.twitter.com/QYeiDJDJ80
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4. ‘For the past half-century, the European Union has seemed to represent the advance guard of a new liberalism.’
5. ‘Today, as it reels from one crisis to the next, the EU has stopped expanding.’
6. ‘US commitment to global leadership looks weaker than at any point since the Second World War.’
7. ‘America risks becoming a mercenary superpower, protecting only those countries that pay.’
8. ‘We are now entering an int. liberal economic order that encompasses states with diverse domestic political systems.’
9. ‘Beijing has wasted no time in laying out its own vision for a more integrated Eurasia that may exclude America.’
10. ‘We may be on the brink of a Eurasian century rather than a Pacific Century.’
11. ‘It is in the West’s interests that China’s economic development continues smoothly.’
12. ‘Infrastructure investment could create new opportunities for growth in both the liberal and illiberal worlds’
13. ‘New Eurasian inter-connections could provide an alternative way for the US and Europe to engage Russia.’
14. ‘Liberal policy makers would be wrong to hunker down or resort to containment.’
15.‘A better approach is for liberal countries to prepare themselves for a period of awkward coexistence with illiberal ones.’
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