It has always been identity of nations which have been driving them. The US always looks to itself as upholder of moral ethics associated with libertarian values and democracy. Even nations like India have a policy of being restrained and non-aligned as much as possible in the world conflicts.
But today we are living in a hyper interconnected world not only in terms of economic interdependence but also on the social platform between individuals across the world. And this is something the nations who rules the roost till now constantly undermine.
For example, US was always tied in its identity of being the guiding light upholder of democratic values which is as per the Constructivism playbook. It was able to plant a discourse, using the Post structuralism school of thought, to the effect of us vs them in fight against terrorism or during the Iraq war. It had relatively successful in this moral framing up until the last decade where it waged wars in Libya, Syria albeit with a more covert method or Smart Wars as coined by Obama. But the same framing is not working in today's time.
In Ukraine war it finds it itself against odds with Russia which it has labeled as them and fits its moral framing. But in the same frame it also has likes of India which is dependent on Russian oil and somehow don't fit the us/them moral framing of the United States. The ensuing tarrif wars has put US in loggerheads with the Global south collectively which has nations who call themselves ally of the US and gain the framing goes wrong here.
So, the post modernistic world is causing lot of problems to constructivist led framing of the identify and associated binary of nations especially the US. The world is much more entangled with deep network of economic and social webs which can't be unwrapped into different boxes.
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