2025, begin of a post-Western world order | EUROtoday

In 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the trendy world emerged from the Cold War after 4 a long time of steadiness of terror. An period of de-escalation was dawning, pushed by guarantees of peace and glad globalization. This parenthesis closed with the invasion of Ukraine. The yr 2025 ends with this cycle.

Produced by the each day editorial workers, the 2026 version of World Report returns to this rupture within the worldwide order, masking the information by three sections: International, France and Planète. The version additionally presents an atlas of the 198 nations of the globe and consists of infographics, portfolio and new columns within the Ideas pages of the newspaper.

For the political scientist Valérie Rosoux, whose interview opens the International pocket book, “2025 confirms the end of the post-World War II order” for the good thing about a brand new trio: the American Donald Trump, the Chinese Xi Jinping and the Russian Vladimir Putin. Three presidents, three predators, three populists who follow the identical self-centered train of energy, flirting with the cult of character and fueled by authoritarian narcissism (with imperial overtones). They additionally every dream of one other, multipolar world, far faraway from the UN multilateralism which has dictated worldwide relations for eight a long time.

Beyond the intoxication of their respective egos, the Trump-Xi-Putin trio finds themselves within the challenge of a post-Western order the place respect for sovereignty and violation of worldwide regulation, globalization of markets and return to zones of affect, neonationalism and empires might coexist, as evidenced by the invasion of Ukraine and, extra just lately, the American army operation in Venezuela.

Europe focused

This in-between, which succeeds the UN order celebrated, within the fall, for the 80^e anniversary of the group, clashes with European values ​​and targets Europe. France is not any exception to this new configuration. The authorities can also be struggling, inside France itself, from assaults in opposition to democracy, the media, freedoms and the values ​​of the Republic.

When democratic ideas tremble on their foundations, defeatism isn’t ally. Without naivety or blindness, a number of indicators nonetheless reveal that the course of historical past is just not irreversible. In the United States, Donald Trump, a capricious monarch who believes himself to be untouchable, faces electoral setbacks and sees the primary yr of his second time period disrupted by the Epstein affair. This version of World Report observes that the dedication of Generation Z, who, in Nepal, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Togo, Bangladesh and Peru, struggle in opposition to inequalities and corruption of regimes, is a mannequin to meditate on.

The defenders of the planet usually are not as helpless as we expect, you may as well learn in these pages. They can depend on the European Union as a lever for motion, so long as the Europeans assert themselves as an actual strategic pressure on the planet. In this chiaroscuro, which frequently creates monsters, there are additionally causes to hope.