Rules-Based International Order: Dos and Don’ts of “Liberal” Manners

... to enforce it depends, among other things, on the existing balance of power. Thus, the main question is who establishes these rules (the subject), what their content is, and what sanctions may follow for any disagreement or dissent. Liberal world order: ... ... American intellectual tradition, the phrase “rule-based order” is, strictly speaking, synonymous of “liberal world order.” Liberalism as the basis of the ideological and political vision shared by Americans goes back to the first European colonists ...