After the Congress of Vienna held in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, European great powers divided spheres of influence and acted as guarantors of peace. Photo: akg-images/Scanpix. Summary: Phrases like “we have entered the jungle laws” or “the world has abandoned the rule-based world order” have become too common in everyday rhetoric.

If one wants to write a proper geopolitics article, it seems that there is no escape from such or similar phrases. But if “jungle laws” are the jungle laws and whether there were any rules in the international system before, the opinion editor Erkki Bahovski asks.

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