World order

World order is an international-relations term meaning "the distribution of power and authority among the political actors on the global stage."^[1] Besides this, world order may refer to:

International relations

• The international system, which includes:
  • International relations (IR), or International studies (IS), the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system
  • International law, implicit and explicit agreements that bind together sovereign states
  • United Nations (UN), an international organization to facilitate international cooperation
  • World Trade Organization (WTO), an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade
  • World Bank, an international financial institution
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF), an international organization that oversees the global financial system
  • International organization, an organization with an international membership, scope, or presence
  • Non-governmental organization (NGO), a legally constituted, non-governmental organization with no participation or representation of any government
• New world order (politics), a post–Cold War political concept promulgated by Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush
• World government, the notion of a single common political authority for all of humanity
• World-system within the world-systems theory, a socioeconomic theory associated with thinkers such as Andre Gunder Frank and Immanuel Wallerstein
• Neorealism in international relations, or structural realism, a theory of international relations, which includes:
  • Hegemonic stability theory (HST), a theory that the international system is more likely to remain stable when a single nation-state is the dominant world power
  • Power (international), state power, including economic and military power
  • Anarchy in international relations, a concept in international relations theory holding that the world system lacks a global authority

Publications

• World Order, published quarterly, 1935–1949 and 1966–present by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'í Faith of the United States, see Stanwood Cobb - Life as a Bahá'í
• World Order, a 2014 book written by Statesman Henry Kissinger
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, a 1996 book written by political scientist Samuel Huntington

Other

• World Order (band), a musical project started by retired mixed martial artist Genki Sudo

See also

• Alliance of Civilizations
• Clash of Civilizations
• Illuminati
• New World Order (disambiguation)
• World Federalist Movement

References

1. Richard Falk, "World Orders, Old and New," Current History, 98/624: (January 1999), p 29.