https://peeterpaul.motskula.net:443/tags/unsc/ Recent content in Unsc on @ppmotskula Hugo -- gohugo.io et-ee peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://peeterpaul.motskula.net:443/2026/04/07/the-triangle-of-power-a-review/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) https://peeterpaul.motskula.net:443/2026/04/07/the-triangle-of-power-a-review/ <p><strong><em>Alexander Stubb, <a href="https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/the-triangle-of-power">The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order</a></em> (Columbia Global Reports / Biteback Publishing, January 2026, 216 pp.)</strong></p> <hr> <p>There is something almost paradoxical about a sitting head of state publishing a book of serious international relations theory. Political memoirs are common enough; policy manifestos, dime a dozen. But <em>The Triangle of Power</em> is neither. Finnish President Alexander Stubb — former foreign minister, prime minister, finance minister, MEP, and Professor and Director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence — has written what is genuinely a work of political science, grounded in first-hand experience at the highest levels of diplomacy, and aimed at a fundamental question: what kind of world order comes after the one that is currently falling apart?</p>