Post-Cold War Security Architecture Will Have To Be Rebuilt After Ukraine

Today’s unfolding calamity may well reverberate far beyond Europe — to, say, Asia and the Middle East, where autocratic leaders in Communist China and Iran eagerly wait to expand their spheres of influence.

The NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, at Brussels February 24, 2022. AP/Virginia Mayo, file

However the military operations might unfold in Ukraine, we are on the brink of a world transformed. The post-Cold War security architecture has crumbled. Nobody can with certainty predict the effects, but they will reverberate for decades.

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