Countries such as Australia have no time to waste in rethinking their options and strategies for engaging with the world after this period between global systems. This period has dispossessed nations of their long-held, cherished assumptions about how the world works. Reframing their view of the world is now imperative.
U.S. action in Venezuela and the Trump administration’s threats against Greenland have pushed NATO and the broader international system to the brink of oblivion. The familiar old world order is disappearing. But no cohesive new global operating system has emerged to replace it.
Nations now exist in an interregnum as they attempt to…