What could come after a rules-based world order?

As the US, Israel, and Iran clash, analysts warn the post-war international system is fracturing, raising urgent questions about what might replace it. | Contesto: cronaca

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• What could come after a rules-based world order?

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The recent military confrontations involving the United States, Israel, and Iran have been interpreted by a growing chorus of diplomats, scholars, and policymakers as a potent signal that the rules-based international order, the foundational system of principles established in the aftermath of the Second World War, is now in a state of advanced collapse. This framework, built around institutions like the United Nations and norms such as the sovereign equality of states and the prohibition on aggressive war, has been the bedrock of global diplomacy for over seventy-five years. Its apparent failure to constrain major power conflict in the Middle East has triggered a profound and urgent debate: if this era is definitively over, what comes next? The current crisis is not an isolated rupture but the culmination of years of mounting strain. The post-1945 order was always an ideal, imperfectly applied and frequently challenged during the Cold War. However, its core tenets—collective security, multilateral dispute resolution, and a common, if contested, understanding of international law—provided a shared language and a set of guardrails. In recent decades, those guardrails have been steadily weakened by unilateral military interventions, the circumvention of UN Security Council authority, rising great-power competition, and a growing disregard for the laws of war in conflicts from Syria to Ukraine. The direct clashes between a network of allied nations and Iran represent a critical acceleration, demonstrating how regional conflicts can now draw in major powers with little regard for established diplomatic protocols. The significance of this shift cannot be overstated. For nations accustomed to operating within this system, particularly mid-sized powers and those reliant on stable trade and security alliances, the uncertainty is deeply unsettling. The order provided predictable, though often frustrating, pathways for negotiation and a measure of protection against arbitrary aggression. Its erosion opens the door to a world where might makes right, where ad-hoc coalitions replace standing alliances, and where economic and military coercion become the primary tools of...

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