rules-based order

noun

A set of global, rule-based, structured relationships based on political liberalism, economic liberalism and liberal internationalism since the late 1940s.

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Meanings

noun
  1. geopoliticsA set of global, rule-based, structured relationships based on political liberalism, economic liberalism and liberal internationalism since the late 1940s.

    If ever there was an example of how Mr. Trump is uninterested in maintaining the post-World War II “rules-based order” and replacing it with superpower politics, this was it.

    2025 January 27, David E. Sanger, “Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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