A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)
Message (1945-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)

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Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
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„French President Macron spoke about Iran, China, and US President Donald Trump in an exclusive #interview with NHK recorded in Tokyo earlier this month. Macron's wide-ranging views touched upon the shifting #internationalorder, his country's relations with Japan and China, as well as #nucleardeterrence. The full interview from April 1 is published below, with only minor editing for brevity and clarity.“

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/4716/

Thursday, March 26, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-26-2026/

States have not made us safer.

The bigger they've become, the more advanced our technology, the more casualties they have produced and the more likely it has become that we will be killed or injured in terrible ways by people thousands of kilometers away.

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