World Faces Leadership Vacuum

We live in a world that is witnessing accelerated challenges in technology, demographics, geopolitics, institutions, transnational crimes and climate change. The most powerful country on earth – the United States of America and the leader of the liberal world order is showing signs of retreat from its role. Immediately after his inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders including the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organisation. These executive orders provide insights into his priorities and how his second term may unfold in the coming months and years. The retreat, argues Francis Fukuyama, “creates a dangerous vacuum, inviting instability and the resurgence of the law of the jungle in international relations.”