Global (Dis)Order

The Global (Dis)Order international policy programme is a joint initiative of the British Academy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to generate fresh insights and creative thinking for the awareness of and uptake by policymakers and practitioners.

Today’s international system is in flux and fragmenting, with the need to navigate competing power aspirations and nodes of order. The programme will focus on understanding the history, current nature, and potential future trajectories of global orders, aiming to examine the diverse and often contested understandings of orders and disorders.

Understanding the realities and dynamics within a multipolar world is critical in analysing its implications for the decades ahead. Creative thinking to generate promising new initiatives and prepare for new developments and challenging scenarios is essential with a need to explore and understand the implications of reordering and disordering.

The programme provides an opportunity to think in broader, longer-range ways, drawing in a breadth of disciplines and expertise from policy, practice and research that is both historical and future-oriented. The programme will have a series of working groups focused on:

1. Dynamics of and within International Order
2. Diagnosing and rethinking a changing world economy
3. Transnational and planetary challenges
4. Violence and (in)security

Achieving this result will require us to marshal diverse perspectives and visions from around the world, as well as expertise that bridges the worlds of research, policy, and practice. It also requires us to take a long view, to better understand the historical antecedents and precedents for contemporary geopolitical, economic, political, societal, technological, ecological, and other trends.

For any queries regarding this programme, please contact Christina Moorhouse ([email protected]) or Philip Lewis ([email protected]).