The legacy left to us by Canadian singer-prophet Leonard Cohen ends with the dark line:
“Oh, and one more thing – you won’t like what comes after America.”
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, it is becoming increasingly clear that the remarkably durable US-led international order is fading. Now the world is desperately trying to figure out what will replace it. A new multipolar order? Spheres of influence? A global version of the 19th-century Vienna Concert of Powers? But the most likely scenario is a long and dangerous period of global disorder .