“Antonio Gramsci, writing from a fascist prison cell in the 1930s, famously observed that “the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” In such an interregnum, he warned, “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Few descriptions capture the present moment more accurately. The international system stands at a historical inflection point: one era is clearly coming to an end, while the shape of the next remains uncertain. What fills the space between is instability, unpredictability and mounting tension.”- writes in a CIR’s comment “Prof. Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor of International Affairs at the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University
