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

Anne-Marie Slaughter thinks a durable middle-power order will depend on creating coalitions of the willing within existing bodies.

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…