In the era of the “geopolitics of the self,” global power ceases to be structured around rules and stable alliances and instead revolves around the personalistic, transactional, and self-referential leadership of Donald Trump.
In a context of profound state weaknesses, Ecuador has ceased to be a marginal actor and has instead become fully—and belatedly—integrated into the dynamics of transnational organized crime.
In a world that is reorganizing itself beyond the bounds of rules and oversight, democracies face the urgent challenge of resisting the advance of authoritarian leadership without renouncing their own limits.
