Rules-Based International Order: Dos and Don’ts of “Liberal” Manners

... “rule-based order” is, strictly speaking, synonymous of “liberal world order.” Liberalism as the basis of the ideological and political vision shared by Americans... ... West was in its interpretation and treatment of formally enshrined principles of the international law. It was at that juncture that a new concept of the rules-based order... ... “rules-based international order” as a political construct came into vernacular usage relatively a short time ago, in the 2000s. The usage frequency graph for the “rules-based...