The foundations of Western hegemony are collapsing. The break with the post-war liberal order is imminent and irreversible. What the world without common rules will look like remains to be seen, but the rivalry between several superpowers is emerging. The United States no longer has the economic and moral basis and appeal to represent the idea of a universal order. The unpredictable and destructive behavior of those in power in Washington means that fewer and fewer countries believe in a lasting relationship with the Americans. Most countries must now consider how they will relate to the world's strongest nations. The challenge is how to create a new international order with the ideals and principles that, at least after the war, brought stability, prosperity, and freedom to the Western world.
The words in the screenshot below aren't from Mark Carney's speech at Davos but from the essay "Exit from Our Age of Disorder" by writer Bruno Maçães, published Nov 2025.
Maçães bid farewell to the liberal order months before the Canadian PM reached the same conclusion.
www.groene.nl/artikel/de-v...
08.02.2026 17:21 —
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Powerful stuff from @brunomacaes.bsky.social, arguing for transatlantic divorce as a matter of self-preservation in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
20.01.2026 08:03 —
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Europe must break from America
Warnings about the end of the postwar world are common sense, not alarmism
By @brunomacaes.bsky.social in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
"After years of praising Ukraine for its courage and sacrifice in defending its sovereignty and territory, how shameful it would be if Europe were incapable of doing the same."
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
19.01.2026 16:35 —
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Trump needs Venezuelan oil to power AI
Otherwise the US faces a future of energy scarcity
Trump needs Venezuelan oil to power AI
By Bruno Maçães
09.01.2026 13:41 —
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Gaza: The Reckoning
The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.
There was a world after Auschwitz, there is now a world after Gaza and @brunomacaes.bsky.social sets out to describe its horrors.
01.01.2026 15:28 —
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Outstanding reflections on the Gaza genocide:
"How were the horrors of Gaza possible? Quite simply, because those who tried to stop or expose them quickly discovered that our political systems were committed to the genocide and there simply was no way to give voice or power to a different politics."
28.12.2025 14:30 —
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"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons & intelligence.. important as these are, than the organised repression & punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel"
@brunomacaes.bsky.social
22.12.2025 13:28 —
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Gaza: The Reckoning
The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.
"The important question is not whether a genocide has been taking place in Gaza, but how it happened and how it was allowed to happen."
brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaza-the-r...
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23.12.2025 14:31 —
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I wrote a personal essay on what it has meant for me witnessing events in Gaza since October 2023. I would be grateful if you help spread it. These were painful, disturbing conclusions to reach. But inescapable…
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Book titled "World Builders" by Bruno Maçães displayed in a bookstore window, with a "buy one get one half price" sticker, positioned in front of other copies and various background decorations.
Day 4 of our Books of the Year dives into tech and geopolitics! 📖💻
In 'World Builders', @brunomacaes.bsky.social explores a new theory of world politics and technology, as well as asking what happens when AI and the metaverse become the world.
🔗: www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/world-builders
26.11.2025 21:29 —
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Out today
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¿Quién escribe hoy las reglas del mundo? Hoy, @polmorillas.bsky.social ha analizado cómo se configura el mapa del poder global en una conversación con Cristina Gallach y @brunomacaes.bsky.social, moderada por @andrea-rizzi.bsky.social, en el foro #Tendencias2025 de @elpais.com
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
29.10.2025 08:47 —
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Who Rules The World? Trump, Tech and the Fight for the Future | Cheltenham Festivals
David Runciman is joined by politician, journalist and philosopher Bruno Maçães and Sarah Wynn-Williams for a live episode of Past Present Future, the hist
🚨 Come join us this week!
"Who Rules The World? Trump, Tech & the Fight for the Future"
A PPF Live recording event.
📆 8pm Wednesday 15 October
📍 Cheltenham Literature Festival
🎙️ With @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams
🎟️ Tickets here ⬇️
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/who-r...
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Who Rules The World? Trump, Tech and the Fight for the Future | Cheltenham Festivals
David Runciman is joined by politician, journalist and philosopher Bruno Maçães for a live episode of Past Present Future, the history of ideas podcast. Fr
🚨 Booking open for a new PPF live recording event!
"Who Rules The World? Trump, Tech & the Fight for the Future"
📆 8pm Wednesday 15th October
📍 Cheltenham Literature Festival
🎙️ With @brunomacaes.bsky.social and *special-can't-announce-yet-guest!!*
04.09.2025 09:00 —
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Trump's gangsterism towards the EU is working
The US-EU tariff deal is a disaster for the European economy.
Trump's gangsterism towards the EU is working. Bruno Maçães writes that the US-EU tariff deal is a disaster for the European economy.
29.07.2025 15:03 —
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Apresentação de Construtores de Mundos hoje em Lisboa
30.06.2025 12:18 —
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Very well put by @brunomacaes.bsky.social in the New Statesman:
‘Once again we are told that a Middle Eastern nation needs to be bombed so it can taste the fruit of freedom.’
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Que nova ordem mundial é anunciada por Trump? Bruno Maçães, político e académico, responde a Daniel Oliveira
Que nova ordem mundial é anunciada por Trump? Bruno Maçães, político e académico, responde a Daniel Oliveira
30.04.2025 14:59 —
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Bruno Maçães on the geopolitical battle of China and US is 'a competition between designers or programmers to determine which of them can build the most powerful dream machine.'
Except Trump is building a nightmare engine.
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A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:
Equality by Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel
Big data : post-truth and disinformation in politics and economy edited by Aleksander Żołnierski and Dariusz Jaruga
Reason, ideology and democracy by Meg Patrick Tuszynski and Richard E. Wagner
World builders by Bruno Maçães
Ethics in Econometrics by Philip Hans Franses
The recasting of the Latin American Right edited by André Borges, Ryan Lloyd and Gabriel Vommaro
The measure of economies edited by Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Louise Sheiner
Stochastic choice theory by Tomasz Strzalecki
The graduate career guidebook by Steve Rook
The data economy by Isaac Baley and Laura Veldkamp
This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks
11.04.2025 15:12 —
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