Good piece, well worth a read. The gap between reality & rhetoric remains large. I suspect part of the problem is that if you put to many leaders of middle powers that they should adopt a principled and pragmatic approach, most would argue that they already are!
@alanbeattie.bsky.socialMy Trade Secrets today. Mark Carney’s speech: nice truth bomb even if not totally original.
But the middle powers finding a new way to run the world requires a massive shift in political will which Carney’s Canada itself has had trouble making.
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Carney’s new global order needs a huge shift in political will
[FREE TO READ] Middle-power diplomacy of the sort the Canadian PM calls for requires governments to throw off domestic constraints