Post-1945 order in flux as superpowers challenge borders

United States President Donald Trump demanding to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada, and the Gaza Strip is empire-building of the crudest sort.

The United Nations Security Council, pictured on Jan. 25. The keystone of the international system is under attack with countries sabotaging the barriers put in place to limit the spread of war, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of United Nations/Evan Schneider

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 11, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—In classical civilizations, there was a continuing, unresolved debate about whether history moved forward or just went around in circles: was it linear, or was it cyclical? But that debate was largely settled once human beings learned about their deeper pa...

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