The World
Change in Global Policy
Quick Passages
It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.
And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself.
World Economic Forum • Davos 2026: Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
“There is no question that an American withdrawal from global trade – the gradual closure of the world’s largest consumer market and largest capital market – would impose significant costs at first on the rest of the world and eventually on the United States itself. If the United States retreats from its traditional role without agreeing on a new... See more