Ashok [email protected] world is entering an era in which old certainties are disappearing faster than new arrangements are taking shape. The post-Cold War belief in an increasingly integrated global economy has given way to geopolitical competition, strategic protectionism, fractured supply chains and a renewed contest for technology, energy and critical minerals. Europe remains unsettled by war; West Asia continues to experience profound instability; the United States and China are locked in an increasingly consequential strategic and economic competition; and countries across the Global South are demanding a greater voice in the institutions that govern the international system.Advertisement It is against…