program
Global Order and Institutions
Managing Global (Dis)Order
The Carnegie Endowment and the British Academy have launched a multiyear initiative on “Global (Dis)Order”. Its purpose is to shed light on the dynamics of global turbulence and identify effective policy responses that will promote a more secure, prosperous, equitable, resilient, and sustainable future for humanity. To advance this research and policy agenda, Carnegie and the Academy have established four multidisciplinary working groups comprising prominent scholars and practitioners from around the world. These focus on: (i) understanding the changing dynamics of global order; (ii) advancing prosperity in a changing world economy; (iii) managing transnational and planetary challenges; and (iv) reducing global violence and insecurity.
Working Group
Dynamics of Global Order
This working group examines the history, current nature, and potential future trajectories of global order. Involving leading experts across multiple regions and disciplines, it analyzes how order and disorder are understood and experienced around the world, identifies the agents and forces most responsible for stasis and change, and explores possibilities for reforming and reordering the world.
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Changing World Economy
This working group examines the history, contemporary dynamics, and possible future directions of the world economy and its governance. Comprising prominent and globally representative experts, it analyzes current stresses and disruptions in the international trade, monetary, financial, digital, humanitarian, climate, migration, and development systems—and asks how new forms of international cooperation might address these.
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Transnational and Planetary Challenges
This working group seeks to improve international cooperation on four sets of complex cross-border dilemmas that sovereign states and established international institutions are struggling to manage and govern. These challenges include Earth system governance, particularly climate change and biodiversity loss; the risks posed by digital and other transformative technologies; global health, including pandemic disease; and outer space governance.
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Violence and Insecurity
This working group analyzes evolving patterns in violence and insecurity, both within and between states, and considers the concrete challenges these pose for international order in a context of growing great power competition, influential non-state forces, rapid technological change, and eroding rules of armed conflict. The working group will explore promising national, regional, and international strategies for preventing and mitigating destructive dynamics.