Nigeria, April 13 -- The world over, there are few sentiments more angsty (antsy, even) than the chuntering, in liberal circles, over the recent rapid erosion (and impending failure) of the post-1945 international order. Forthcoming chaos is the medium-term outlook. According to this reading of events, the components of the muddle to come are a new multipolar world (in which multilateral impulses will be all but extinguished) along with the re-emergence (as in the period just before World War I) of the notion that "might is right". From Russia versus Ukraine, through Israel against Hamas, to the possibility of China's declaration of hostilities against Taiwan, the sense of a breach of norms of international civility is as pervasive as it ...