How world order looks after 2025Listen to this articleA photo shows Palestinians walking past a sand sculpture reading '2026' on the beach in Gaza City on Dec 31, 2025. But its significance goes far beyond numerical elegance -- it marks the year the postwar global order expired and a new one began. But, with hindsight, the postwar order carried the seeds of its demise. Some contours of the new world order -- three in particular -- are already visible. We have a chance to do better: to build a more plural, more equal and more ecologically grounded world order.
