My book, The Triangle of Power – Rebalancing the New World Order, is out today in English and Swedish. It is an attempt to explain what is going on in international relations and how we can get things back on track again.
Worked on it for four years. Tried to make it short and snappy without cutting too many corners. It will come out in 12 different languages.
My main argument is that the liberal world order is unravelling. Multilateral cooperation is giving away to multipolar rivalry and conflict. The new world order is being shaped by three major forces: the Global West, the Global East and the Global South. Many moving parts at the moment, but my main thesis is that it will be the Global South that determines whether the world will tilt towards cooperation or fragmentation.
The book is a call for values-based realism and dignified foreign policy. Unless our current international institutions are reformed, we will be moving back to a Hobbesian world. Let’s make sure it won’t happen. Everyone has agency. If there is a problem, fix it.