“Our Europe is mortal,” French President Emmanuel Macron warned his audience at the Sorbonne in 2024. “It can die, and it all depends on our choices.” Macron’s doom and gloom is not far-fetched. Liberal democracy and the rule of law are in retreat, including in Europe itself. European Union-style multilateral governance and win-win economic integration, underpinned by jointly agreed norms, are no longer en vogue in a world where strongman-led great powers vie for influence. Once a lynchpin of