The Personalist Global Order: when individual whims drive Great-Power Policy
Gunitsky, Seva / Semuhi SinanogluExternal Publications (2026)
published on www.foreignaffairs.com, 26.01.2026
The emerging global system is one in which three nuclear-armed leaders, insulated from dissent, pursue risky gambits. The result will not be the relatively stable if tense competition that characterized the Cold War. It will be something more volatile: a world in which the most consequential decisions rest on the whims of men who have systematically discarded anyone willing to tell them no.