When a 40-year-old economics professor at Harvard University named Dani Rodrik was preparing to publish his first book in 1997, he sent the manuscript to a fellow economist to ask for an endorsement.

The world has entered a period of extraordinary turmoil and uncertainty characterized by, among other disruptive developments, the breakdown of the international economic order that has existed since the end of the Cold War.

Of all today’s crises and conflicts, the US-China rivalry will most fundamentally remake our world.