<b>Trade wars and the changing international order:</b> a crisis of globalization?

Abstract Increased geopolitical competition and growing economic nationalism after 2014 have gradually started to slow the trend of liberalization international trade. Relations among certain national states turned into trade wars – a hybrid phenomenon shaped at intersection geopolitics geoeconomics. The paper explores global regional trends in regulations introduced by world's largest economies and, same time, its major military powers. G20 countries’ role these processes was illustrated through references empirical data on dynamics 2009–2018. effectiveness index is proposed. Apart from harm that deepening such negative geostrategic balance does broader bilateral relations, re-shaping globalization's established conditions also discussed.