US, Jan. 5 -- The quest for peace is still on, but it has been made known by 2025 that the road ahead will be neither easy nor guaranteed anymore.

With the closing of 2025, the globe has to deal with an entirely revolutionized geopolitical map, which is characterized by the increase in wars, international norms becoming less and less powerful, and a clear shift towards a multipolar world. It was a year when the old order could no longer handle the pressure of rivalry among states, thus giving rise to weak truce agreements and disputes that had not been settled as the inheritance of the period.

The return of transactional diplomacy

On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump took office as the 47th president of the United States, marking a shift ...