rules-based order

English

Noun

rules-based order

1. (politics, geopolitics) A set of global, rule-based, structured relationships based on political liberalism, economic liberalism and liberal internationalism since the late 1940s.
   • 2025 January 27, David E. Sanger, “Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     If ever there was an example of how Mr. Trump is uninterested in maintaining the post-World War II “rules-based order” and replacing it with superpower politics, this was it.

Usage notes

• Sometimes used sarcastically by the opponents of such an idea or order.

See also

• Pax Americana