I place it before Dead Orbit, which is explicitly set a bit later in the period between A3 and AR (2289 or something).
My thoughts on the order of recent series:
1. Life and Death has Weyland-Yutani starting a big push for new colonies with the New Worlds initiative.
2. Flash forward to Dust to Dust, where one of said colonies is starting to fail, hence the terrible decision that starts the outbreak.
3 Dead Orbit has an offhand mention of how the outer colonies went "tits up."
I don't think it's an international thing, but the overall arc works. WY aggressively expanded, got overextended, and then started to fail before losing their FTL contracts and getting suppressed by the USM.