Why the World Isn’t Really United Against Russia

As Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s army reduced one Ukrain­ian city after anoth­er to rub­ble, crush­ing civil­ians caught in apart­ment blocks and shop­ping malls under a rain of artillery and mis­sile fire, many observers in the rich world bemoaned the dys­func­tion of the Unit­ed Nations for not being able to over­come an obsta­cle writ­ten into its…

There Is No Liberal World Order

In Feb­ru­ary 1994, in the grand ball­room of the town hall in Ham­burg, Ger­many, the pres­i­dent of Esto­nia gave a remark­able speech. Stand­ing before an audi­ence in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the val­ues of the demo­c­ra­t­ic world that Esto­nia then aspired to join. “The free­dom of every indi­vid­ual, the free­dom of the econ­o­my and…