Twenty-two years to the day after President George H.W. Bush evoked a "new world order" in an address to a joint session of Congress, the optimism that guided that vision seems a distant memory, even as the U.S. dominance that made it possible has given way to an increasingly multipolar system of global checks and balances. The economic integration of globalization, too, is being rolled back by the after-effects of the global financial crisis, while the state-based approach to global security has been rendered obsolete by the hybrid nature of globalized power. The combined effect is of an era coming to a close.
World Politics Review features are sets of in-depth articles on key topics in international affairs written exclusively for WPR. Our nonpartisan, nonideological articles cover diplomacy, military affairs, energy, economics and other subjects that make geopolitics tick.
Language
English
Pages
34
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
World Politics Review
Release
September 10, 2012
Final Curtain: The End of the New World Order (World Politics Review Features)
Twenty-two years to the day after President George H.W. Bush evoked a "new world order" in an address to a joint session of Congress, the optimism that guided that vision seems a distant memory, even as the U.S. dominance that made it possible has given way to an increasingly multipolar system of global checks and balances. The economic integration of globalization, too, is being rolled back by the after-effects of the global financial crisis, while the state-based approach to global security has been rendered obsolete by the hybrid nature of globalized power. The combined effect is of an era coming to a close.
World Politics Review features are sets of in-depth articles on key topics in international affairs written exclusively for WPR. Our nonpartisan, nonideological articles cover diplomacy, military affairs, energy, economics and other subjects that make geopolitics tick.