Porcupines, Silicon, and Alliances: How Middle Powers Can Resist Great Power Coercion

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney dominated headlines with his 2025 Davos address. Declaring the end of the rules-based international order and the emergence of “intensifying great power competition”, Carney’s assessment reflects the visible erosion of multilateral institutions such as an absent World Trade Organization (WTO), a paralyzed United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and the rise of…