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The Arrival of the Multi-order World and Its Geopolitical Implications
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The Arrival of the Multi-order World and Its Geopolitical Implications

Portraying the world as multipolar belies the complexity, significance, and extent of recent changes and could have disastrous policy consequence. In a multi-order world, relationships within orders are as important as relations between orders.

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By Trine Flockhart
Published on Feb 24, 2026
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Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging. Geopolitical competition, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing the rules-based international order and complicating collective responses to shared threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems.

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Trine Flockhart

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Global Governance

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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