Why today’s ‘unravelled’ international order echoes the lead-up to World War I

The “unravelled” post-Cold War international order has created conditions that appear to mirror those preceding a great-power conflict, a former senior adviser to the White House has warned. “The international landscape … [is] beginning to look uncomfortably like a pre-war environment,” said Thomas Wright, who served as senior director for strategic planning at the US National Security Council in the Joe Biden administration. “A familiar pattern is taking shape,” Wright said on Wednesday at a...

By Orange Wang