Let us not forget multilateral institutions
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Finnish President Alexander Stubb recently laid out a road map for middle-power action in The Economist, having recognized the importance of “actively taking on the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be.”
Their joint commentary is a summer sequel to Carney’s viral speech at Davos in January and Stubb’s December Foreign Affairs article on “how to build a new global order before it’s too late.” Carney’s declaration of a “rupture” in the international order, and public denouncement of the US administration’s lawlessness, was a shot heard round the world. To emphasize the breadth of that rupture, Carney and Stubb now warn that their countries — which border the US and Russia, respectively — no longer have “the luxury of relying on old orders of geography.” Both are “striking closer relations with powers like India and, while avoiding strategic dependencies, China, as well as with countries of the Global South.”
