Finnish President Alexander Stubb believes that the liberal world order is giving way to multipolar competition, which has allowed developing countries to set the rules of the world.
“We live in a new world of disorder“, Stubb notes in an article published in the journal Foreign Affairs. “The liberal, rules-based order that emerged after World War II is now dying. Multilateral cooperation is giving way to multipolar competition. Opportunistic deals seem to be more important than respecting international rules.“
According to him, a three-way confrontation is unfolding in the world between the “global West, the global East and the global South“.
Stub believes that the new world order will be finally established within the next five to ten years. According to him, this will be the West's last chance “to convince the rest of the world of its capacity for dialogue, not monologue, for consistency, not double standards, for cooperation, not domination“.
In April, the Finnish president said that his country should “prepare mentally“ to restore relations with Russia at the political level. He also specified that the prospects for contacts with Moscow depend on the end of the conflict in Ukraine and progress in discussions on restoring relations in general.