A World Order in Dissolution. What Now?
Since January 2025, the world order known as the West has been in dissolution. Europe has become the Other to President Trump. The Atlantic has become a ditch that divides instead of an ocean that connects. However, the dissolution also has a more long-term dimension, visible in the decline of democracy, which, after 1945, became the pillar of the Western world order. Three articles by Bo Stråth and a guest article by Etienne Balibar explore the forces propelling the dissolution and reflect on what to do, outlining the world as it is and how it should be.
Bo Stråth’s three articles were originally written in Swedish for Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift and were to be published in No. 2, June 2025, No. 3, September 2025, and No. 4, December 2025. They are all published in English, French, German and Italian. The same goes for Balibar’s article.
