The world is “on the brink” of a “post-Western age”, a leading German think tank has warned. “Some of the most fundamental pillars of the West and of the liberal international order are weakening … [and] the willingness and ability of Western democracies to shape international affairs and to defend the rules-based liberal order are declining,” Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German diplomat who now chairs the Munich Security Conference (MSC), said.
EUobserver: World on brink of ‘post-Western age’
German soldiers stand on the tarmac after arriving at the airport Kaunas in Karmelava, Lithuania, on Feb. 1, 2017.
