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

.... The rules-based order: a sweet-sounding euphemism? Andrey Kortunov: A New Western Cohesion and World Order The “rules-based international order” as a political construct came into vernacular usage relatively a short time ago, in the 2000s. The usage frequency graph for the “rules-based international order” phrase in the array of publications, according to Google Books Ngram , demonstrates that since 2000 there has been a steady increase in its use. American researcher Paul Poast believes, that a surge in leveraging this ...