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Colonial nostalgia, neo-colonial extraction, or domestic protectionism? three hypotheses on Rubio’s Munich address and the Global South

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel
External Publications (2026)

published on www.globalpolicyjournal.com, 05.03.2026

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Marco Rubio's address confirms that the normative foundations of international cooperation are now openly contested not only from outside the West but from within the West itself. The question is no longer whether what is called the ‘post-1945 consensus’ will hold. The question is what replaces it, and on whose terms.

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