Description
100 years ago many dedicated international affairs schools in research universities and think tanks were founded to educate students and devise solutions to the problem of war, peace and international order. A century later, a series of global shocks have raised profound questions about the ideas and institutions whose origins can be located in that founding moment are fit for purpose. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this concern by revealing the extreme inequalities within societies and across regions, and also the failings of international cooperation. We draw on scholars who have come together in 2020 and 2021 as part of the Lloyd George Study Group on World Order to consider a series of alternative future arrangements for international and regional governance from reforming the United Nations, Reviving the West, extending the Liberal Order, contending with an Illiberal Order, and managing a world order where China is the dominant power. Scholars on this panel also propose arrangements for a new Concert of Great Powers with limited participation from regional organizations. We evaluate the role of power, democracy, liberalism, nationalism and inequality in alternative futures for world order.
