Published: December 25, 2018
The world in 2018, part two The United Nations, World Trade Organisation and Nato were all undermined as Donald Trump led a move away from the postwar order
It was a year the world regressed – at least in terms of relations between states. Binding treaties were discarded, multilateral organisations were denigrated and usurped, international law was ignored, and the authority of the United Nations came under unprecedented challenge. The ideal, encouraged since 1945, of a global community making common cause to right the world’s wrongs faded. In 2018, the ties that bind frayed.
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