"He concludes: “If the world is now moving towards policies of national self-sufficiency and national interest above everything else, then an international system of rules not only does not make sense, but cannot exist. Or it may end up in total irrelevance the way the League of Nations did.”"
National self-sufficiency in an era of increasingly scarce sources of energy and of critical raw materials? Good luck! :-) National interest? Well, yeah, if one accepts defining the interest of a group of global elites with a certain national home base as the interest of that "nation." What we see, again, is globalization but with separate camps of alliances pursuing their own interests, damn the rest. A growing struggle for survival.
"He concludes: “If the world is now moving towards policies of national self-sufficiency and national interest above everything else, then an international system of rules not only does not make sense, but cannot exist. Or it may end up in total irrelevance the way the League of Nations did.”"
National self-sufficiency in an era of increasingly scarce sources of energy and of critical raw materials? Good luck! :-) National interest? Well, yeah, if one accepts defining the interest of a group of global elites with a certain national home base as the interest of that "nation." What we see, again, is globalization but with separate camps of alliances pursuing their own interests, damn the rest. A growing struggle for survival.