Introduction

Nikolav Slang is the leader of BCG's Global Advantage Practice and co-author of Beyond Great. He says we have seen a continuous development of a global world order that was focused on free trade, Western democracies and related values. But in the 2010s, starting with the great financial depression, but also then the Euro crisis,. The refugee crisis, Brexit, the Trump administration and its related trade policies, we've seen a rapid change.