American foreign policy elites and their counterparts in allied countries, especially in Europe, repeatedly instruct us that diplomatic and military power should be used to "uphold" the "rules-based international order," which has been defined as "a shared commitment to conduct international affairs in accordance with laws, principles and practices embodied in institutions such as the United Nations, regional security arrangements, trade agreements and multilateral financial institutions."
The
Biden administration's foreign policy seems wedded to defending such an
order (secretary of state Antony Blinken mentions it quite frequently
in his speeches, and State Department officials often refer to it in
press briefings), but as Jacob Grygiel has pointed out in the Wall
Street Journal, the "rules-based international order" is a myth.............To Read More....
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