The focus is on new world order: chance or risk of humanity?

The focus is on new world order: chance or risk of humanity?

In a time when the world stands in front of significant geopolitical challenges, an important discussion about the direction in which international order moves is conducted. This debate takes place during an event, which Stephen Walt, a proven expert in the field of international relations. Walt, professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former teacher at Princeton and the University of Chicago, will speak on November 5, 2024. This coincides with the US elections, an event that could potentially change the global landscape.

Walt will illuminate the forces that undermine the current geopolitical order and discuss how states can develop a new structure that enables sustainable human existence. Central to the discussion are topics such as minimizing war risks, the management of goods and capital flows as well as the protection of basic human rights. These aspects are particularly relevant because after the end of the Cold War in 1992 and the failed attempts by the United States to establish a liberal world order, a new world order is required.

The speakers and their backgrounds

Stephen Walt is not only an academic, but also a columnist for the renowned magazine "Foreign Policy", where he regularly comments on global events. His most recent book "The Hell of Good Inentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Deprass of U.S. Primacy" deals with the challenges that American foreign policy faces. Ivan Krastev, an important thinker and permanently Fellow at the IWM, will also take part in this event. Krastev, who is also director of the Center for Liberal Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria, will contribute additional perspectives to discussion.

In recent years, the geopolitical landscape has increasingly changed. The collapse of the liberal order, which became visible in the course of the 2008 financial crisis and the failed interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, results in an increase in populism and authoritarianism. At this event, the audience is asked to ask themselves the crucial questions: How can a new, more stable order look and what do the states have to do to create the prerequisites for peaceful coexistence?

Participation in this discussion requires prior registration. Interested parties have the opportunity to reserve a place online and actively participate in this important debate. For more information about the event and the possibility of registration, including specific details about the date and time, you can take a look at the information on www.meinbezirk.at throw.