Feels like there’s a few different things that can underwrite a rules-based order with teeth, besides military power (which includes embargos/blockades)
Veto-based legal regimes (UNSC)
Currency exchange rates (WB/IMF)
Technical-standards based (ITU etc)
Refugee policies
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That’s reductive. The point is they create a space of possibilities between conflict and force. Kinda tautological that everything is ultimately reducible to force, but in practice that’s irrelevant.
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The rules-based order needs them all to work perfectly and in unison. Yet UNSC is powerless in case of Syria-like conflicts, WB/IMF neither sets nor controls exchange rates, etc., etc., etc.

