ANALYSIS: In a bid to uphold the global order, Biden is betting on another despot
We are hearing again the mantra of upholding the rules-based order. But do we stop to think what that is?It isn't a 20th century invention but has its roots in post-Napoleon Europe. Then European states joined with Russia to claim victory over France and, as historian Glenda Sluga points out in her book, The Invention of International Order, "They invented a new culture of international diplomacy".
Sluga says the invention of a European-dominated international order is "a story of the forgetting of ... an Ottoman Empire with equal legal standing".In the 20th century a new order emerged out of the two World Wars. It has been built around first the League of Nations and later the United Nations regulated by covenants and treaties.
It is often described as a liberal rules-based order but, as Reid-Henry says, it has been "more about order than it was about liberalism; it was about consolidating political authority in the name of freedom". Corruption and hypocrisy are built into the order. What place morality? Morals often lose out to realpolitik and, as political scientist Joseph Nye has said, foreign policy always involve trade-offs and choices.
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