This past Friday, at the Munich Security Conference, someone asked me, "Do you think we're in a new world order?"
Prime Minister Carney's remarks at the World Economic Forum were words that rang around the world in raising this question.
But I think that also in his remarks, as well as part of this larger conversation, there was this undertone, this undercurrent, this suggestion, that it was a rules based order sometimes.
And I think that is the issue that lies before us. That in a so-called "rules based order," the rules for whom? Because for all too long, the rules only applied to the United States, Europe, its allies and we would carve out exceptions for the Global South.
When you have a rules based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, exceptions to our rules — eventually the exceptions become the rules.
Over the last 5 years we've seen such a breaking and such a fraying of these alleged western values that people wonder if it ever existed in the first place.
So I don't know if it's necessarily that we are in a post-rules based order. I think it's possible we were in a pre-rules based order.
We have an opportunity to explore what a world would look like if we upheld democracy, human rights, trade that actually centers working-class people instead of accruing overwhelmingly the benefits of trade to the wealthiest.
If we reoriented to a new era, that could actually help people and show how foreign policy and healthy foreign policy can show up and help them in their lives.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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