This is how we must proceed, Gordon Brown.

What’s clear after recent events is that the fourth global order cannot be restored. 

We are not only in a more protectionist era but are moving from a unipolar world where the US was the sole hegemonic power to one that has many more centres of decision-making power.

 But because we are also a more interconnected world, we are more vulnerable to crises – from pandemics and climate emergencies to financial contagion. 

All the more so because countries can, as we saw this week, weaponise that interdependence and the choke points it creates for their own advantage. 

So if we are to have anything approaching a values-based order we will have at some point to agree an updated global charter for our common future, something that builds on the Atlantic Charter of 1941 and the UN Charter of 1945, but is geared to a completely different century. 

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