Publisher's Synopsis
How the World Broke-and How Democracy Can Still Win
We are at a moment in history when the world seems to be at a critical juncture. With Donald Trump back in the White House, China rewriting the rules, and Russia redrawing borders by force, the old world order isn't just fraying-it's being replaced.
In this urgent and clear-eyed book, Finland's President Alexander Stubb-one of Europe's leading statesmen and a key figure in negotiations over Russia's invasion of Ukraine-offers a gripping account of how the world tipped into crisis and what can still be saved.
At the heart of his argument is a new framework: a Triangle of Power between the aging and flawed West, the increasingly authoritarian East, and a rising and ever-pivotal Global South. Drawing on decades of diplomacy and the hard lessons from history, Stubb proposes a bold new strategy-values-based realism-that blends principle with pragmatism to help democracies survive and thrive in a chaotic multipolar age.
From a midnight call with Trump to icy sauna reflections on nuclear brinkmanship, from tense Russian negotiations in Tbilisi to late-night strategy sessions in Helsinki, The Triangle of Power is a wake-up call: if the West doesn't adapt, it will lose the 21st century.
