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Madrid — a quarter-century ago, the world changed course in an instant. The new millennium had roughly coincided with the arrival of new presidents in the US States and Russia, then the world’s two greatest military powers. But the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US fundamentally altered both countries’ trajectories, as well as that of a rising China, setting in motion developments that would produce the fractured geopolitical order we live in today. Everyone who is old enough still remembers where they were on that fateful day. One of us was in Crimea, the other in Khartoum, and…
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