Until recently, the "Asian Century" seemed a compelling narrative but now it is not what it used to be. It was supposed to ...

Belgian colleagues kindly explained the basics of how modern societies work; I adhered to a rule of never engaging Americans ...

Sovereigntism also means an end to something else: Pax Americana. Though it takes its name from the Pax Romana of the first ...

Donald Trump is moving rapidly to change the contours of contemporary international affairs, with the old US-dominated world order breaking down into ...

It isn’t exactly easy to make sense of the Trump administration’s foreign policy after its first bombastic weeks in office. Does it have a governing concept, beyond a taste for drama and the assertion ...

Though it takes its name from the Pax Romana of the first and second centuries and the Pax Britannica of the 19th ... an end to Serbian depredations that European powers lacked the will or ...

The Industrial Revolution had raised Victoria’s England to a position of surpassing wealth; Pax Britannica in all ... penetrating menns on European strategy. Prime Minister Asquith was impressed.

With global democracy in retreat, the emerging international order looks to be moving in an authoritarian direction. As it ...

On the other hand, previous world orders have not been truly hegemonic. Pax Britannica did not encompass the entire world. Nor did Pax Americana, which didn’t include China, India, the former ...