Today the British Academy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have announced an ambitious, multi-year partnership to examine the fragmenting international system and competing power aspirations.
The international policy programme, titled Global (Dis)Order, will focus on understanding the history, current nature and potential future trajectories of the global order. The new initiative will examine the nuanced ways people understand global order and offer insight into where conflicts may arise.
Global (Dis)Order provides an opportunity to think in broader, longer-range ways drawing in a breadth of disciplines and expertise from policy, practice and research, both historical and future-oriented. Through fresh insights, creative thinking and promising new initiatives, the programme aims to help prepare policy and decision makers for new developments and challenging scenarios, as well as to more deeply understand the implications of reordering and disordering. The programme will bring together policymakers, practitioners and researchers through a series of working groups, workshops, roundtables and conferences which will deliver specific policy-oriented outputs.
The programme will be led by Dr. Stewart Patrick from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and British Academy Fellows across a breadth of disciplines including Professors Patricia Clavin, Andrew Hurrell, Sarah Birch, Harriet Bulkeley, Christine Chinkin and Lawrence Freedman.
The programme’s official launch follows a joint conference hosted at the British Academy’s London headquarters, bringing together 160 participants from across the globe earlier this year [link]. The insights from the conference will act as a springboard to developing the policy and research objectives of this ambitious programme, as it kicks off in earnest.
Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy, said: “It couldn’t be a more urgent time to examine global order, turmoil and disruptions: change is happening in ways and at a speed not seen for a long time. I am delighted that the Academy is joining with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: together, we are natural partners to enhance understanding of the current moment, historical antecedents and precedents for contemporary trends, and how core questions about global order and disorder can be approached. Understanding the realities and dynamics within a multipolar world is critical in analysing its implications for the decades ahead.”
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: “On security, economics, and governance, the world faces enormous overlapping challenges that are forcing a reassessment of how countries, institutions, and people navigate a tumultuous time. The global system of the 21st century that sought to reduce conflict and improve lives is under strain. Given Carnegie’s deep roots in understanding and developing new ideas to strengthen international cooperation, we are pleased to partner with the British Academy to rigorously analyze instability in our world, draw on the lessons that we can learn from history, and generate fresh ideas that can help leaders meet the moment.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
- For further information please contact:
At the British Academy: Ash Khan,a.khan@thebritishacademy.ac.uk
At the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Sharmeen Aly,sharmeen.aly@ceip.org
- The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future. We invest in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas, engage the public with fresh thinking and debates, and bring together scholars, government, business and civil society to influence policy for the benefit of everyone.
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