European leaders are beginning to believe their continent is the last advocate for a world that isn’t governed with a sense of might-makes-right.

Between the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. demands for sovereignty over Greenland, and other geopolitical upheavals to global norms, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is lamenting it all as a “shift in the international order” that is both “seismic” and “permanent.”