2023 has shown us the misery big-power politics creates. Here’s how we can do things differently | Margus Tsahkna
The rules-based world order' is no more than a myth. It's time for a major overhaul of institutions from the UN to the ICC
Our rules-based world is the triumph of peace over war. At least, that's how the story has been told for the past eight decades. The promise of never again" has been the raison d'etre for global institutions such as the United Nations and the international criminal court (ICC), which all like to trace their history to the moment when nations emerged from the ruins of the second world war and forged a lasting peace. Rising freedom and prosperity was understood to be the byproduct.
Yet increasing numbers of people around the world no longer believe in that story. Its promise has been broken with the return of full-scale aggression by Russia, along with deteriorating violence and instability around the world. We are witnessing the horrors that this system was supposed to have long ago eliminated.
Margus Tsahkna is Estonia's minister of foreign affairs
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