At least three competing versions of the future world order crashed together at the World Economic Forum's gathering in Davos last week. There was the one peddled by a combative Donald Trump, calling for a full-scale US retreat from the current order. Another came from Chinese leaders who proposed a new global economic system built around Beijing. Meanwhile, Canada's Justin Trudeau and France ...
This blog contains the full transcript of a special address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, delivered at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos. Carney emphasized the end of the rules-based international order and outlined how Canada was adapting by building strategic autonomy while maintaining values like human rights and sovereignty. The Canadian PM called for ...
Middle powers agree the old order is no longer holding. From Europe to Asia, leaders described a world of permanent rupture, not transition. Sovereignty is being redefined as resilience, not retreat. Across regions, leaders framed capacity-building as the basis for agency in a more fragmented global economy. The response is collective, not passive. Rather than waiting, middle powers are ...
Global capital flows are shifting as emerging markets attract investment. This trend is reshaping the economic world order and global finance.
Maintaining global order Instability and conflict are surging because the global order is undergoing a wrenching transition. Put simply, international affairs are shifting from a unipolar world dominated by the US to a multipolar system where power is more distributed across states, companies, and non-state actors.
The Making and Unmaking of a World Order, Dasgupta writes that the global disruption we are experiencing masks the inevitable return to a centuries-old power structure — with nation-states beginning ...