To this day, hardly anyone in the West is willing to acknowledge their own share of responsibility for the failure of the global order—or how they themselves contributed to the formation of rival blocs. In the fourth and, for now, final installment of the Chronicles of the New World Disorder, the central focus shifts to the defining systemic conflict of our time: the rise of China and the gradual erosion of American global dominance. Two powers, inextricably intertwined economically—and ye...

The world as we knew it no longer exists. The shock is hitting those countries hardest that pursue their own geopolitical and economic interests but are unable to actively shape the world order. In the third part of the Chronicles of the New World Disorder, we describe how regional powers try to find their role within it. The story began with China and India: they rose up against the West’s colonial trade policies and successfully led their billion-strong populations out of poverty, while ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world seemed to stand at the dawn of a new era: democracy, prosperity, a liberal order. It turned out differently. This book tells how, from the hopeful new beginning after 1991, American foreign policy first contributed to state collapse and ultimately to the destabilization of entire regions. The analysis begins in Somalia, where the trauma of Mogadishu led the West to look away just as genocide unfolded in Rwanda. It continues through the Yugo...

In 2002, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee enthused: “No Russian leader since Peter the Great has aligned himself so closely with the West as Vladimir Putin.” The senator’s name: Joe Biden. Exactly twenty years later, as President of the United States, he faced Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This book traces the economic origins of the rift between the West and the rest of the world. It begins in the 1990s, when the West promised that globalization would raise prosp...