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Mark Urban, BBC: What lies in store for the world in 2017?
What lies in store for the world next year? Some telling recent events suggest it could be very difficult for Western countries.
While at the end of 2015 I looked at the way nationalistic populism would make the job of diplomats harder in 2016, now there are signs that the West's ability even to set the rules of the international game is beginning to unravel.
"The post-Cold War era of Western-led globalisation, US predominance and the comfortable ascendancy of liberal international values is over," says Sir Simon Fraser, head of the UK Diplomatic Service 2010-2015.
"The current stresses on the international order that we've known since the end of the Second World War", argues US General Stanley McChrystal, who commanded Nato forces in Afghanistan 2009-2010, "reflect a decentralization or 'atomization' of power on multiple levels".
Among key events in the latter part of 2016:
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WNU Editor: The World Order has been unravelling for a long time. But what has accelerated this trend lately is the realisation among many that the promises that were made of a better world have not been realised .... especially in the West. The result has then become predictable .... Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of populism in the West. My prediction .... these trend lines are only going to accelerate in 2017, starting with the West looking more inward for its solutions and policies than outwards. And as for the age of massive trade agreements, the power of international legal and political institutions coupled with grand political-military alliances .... I see that coming to an end.
