Book
Europe is facing rising populism internally as well as external pressures from Russia, China, Turkey, and the United States.
Dimitar Bechev
Research
The Arrival of the Multi-order World and Its Geopolitical Implications
Portraying the world as multipolar belies the complexity, significance, and extent of recent changes and could have disastrous policy consequence. In a multi-order world, relationships within orders are as important as relations between orders.
By Trine Flockhart
Published on Feb 24, 2026
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