scholarly journals How Africa and China may shape UN peacekeeping beyond the liberal international order

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1451-1468
Author(s):  
Katharina P Coleman ◽  
Brian L Job
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
International Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Weak Support ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding

Abstract UN peacekeeping became a flagship activity of the liberal international order (LIO) in the post-Cold War era, characterized by globalization, liberal norms and western leadership. Western states' diminished support for LIO UN peacekeeping has left it increasingly open to challenge, but significant changes are only likely if a strong group of states coalesces around an alternative model of UN peacekeeping. This article highlights African actors and China as well positioned to play pivotal roles in such a coalition. African states, who host the preponderance of UN missions and furnish almost half of the UN's uniformed peacekeepers, support globalized UN peacekeeping, show relatively weak support for the most liberal peacebuilding principles and assert the need for African-led solutions to continental crises. China's influence reflects its P5 status, financial and personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping and engagement with regional actors, notably in Africa. Aspiring to global leadership and a ‘new world order’, China endorses globalized UN peacekeeping but proposes a non-liberal (and non-western led) notion of ‘developmental peace’ to guide it. The complementarities between African and Chinese priorities raise the possibility of a profound challenge to LIO peacekeeping. Rather than heralding deglobalization, however, this challenge illustrates that post-LIO international institutions may instead be characterized by deliberalization and dewesternization.

Discourse of global governance

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-246
Author(s):  
Annita Lazar ◽  
Michelle M. Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
Primary Focus

This article is based on the view that in the post-Cold War period, a US-defined New World Order discourse has been in formation. Adopting a critical discourse analytical perspective, the paper examines the deployment of American liberal democratic political ideology, which forms the basis of the New World Order discourse. American liberal democracy is construed vis--vis the articulation of illiberal global threats (namely, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein); through international consensus-building based on universalized American principles of freedom and democracy; and through Americas self-election to global leadership. While the primary focus of the study is on the speeches of President George W. Bush since the 11 September 2001 attacks, the analysis also includes speeches by the former post-Cold War presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, in the context of earlier historic events. An intertextual analysis of the speeches shows the hegemonic form(ul)ation of American liberal democratic internationalism in the post-Cold War environment.

The New World Order and the General Assembly: Bloc Realignment at the UN in the Post-Cold War World

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven K. Holloway ◽  
Rodney Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
New World ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
World Order ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Scaling Analyses ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThe demise of the Cold War and greater cooperation among the Security Council's permanent members have created a situation frequently characterized as a New World Order at the United Nations. This study examines whether that characterization can also be applied to the politics of the UN General Assembly. Using descriptive analysis of roll-call votes, the authors find that recent sessions, and in particular the 46th session, witnessed the end of a fairly stable decade of voting blocs in the General Assembly. An indicator of vote changing is developed which documents the rapid movement of the former Warsaw Pact members and Baltic states towards more western European positions. Hierarchical cluster and multidimensional scaling analyses are employed to identify the emerging voting alliances. The results suggest that the accommodation has not been as widespread in the General Assembly and that our longstanding conceptualizations of east/west/north/south polarizations are in need of revision.

Contesting hegemons: US–French relations in the ‘New World Order’

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES PETRAS ◽  
MORRIS MORLEY
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Liberal Economy ◽  
Dominant State ◽  
Sense Of Power

International relations is now marked by a distinct bias against both realism and materialism. This, allied to the currently fashionable notion that in a globalized, liberal economy cooperation rather than competition is the norm, has meant that few scholars have been concerned to analyse the sources of rivalry between the various capitalist states. This article suggests that a version of realism informed by a keen sense of power and hierarchy remains essential if we are to understand the dynamics of US foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The case study deployed here revolves around the various attempts made by one of America's allies to contest Washington's vision of a ‘new world order’. The French challenge assumed many forms but in the end was seen off by the dominant state; the outcome only confirming US preponderance and guaranteeing its hegemonic position into the 21st century.

scholarly journals Balancing the Traditional and the Modern

2016 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Hrath Tchilingirian
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Mixed Blessing

The post-cold war era has been a mixed blessing for the "new world order". On the one hand, there is increasing interest in social, ecological, gender and moral issuesfacing the world; on the other hand, nationalism and politicized religion have dominated the central stage of public discourse.

scholarly journals Will the Pandemic Crisis Covid-19 be a Turning Point in Changing and Bringing a New World Order?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 488-503
Author(s):  
Ali Madouni
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Core Concepts

Abstract. As the new pandemic broke out in almost the globe, part of analysts, observers and politicians hurried to talk early about the major changes that may be caused by the new spreading pandemic in all domains ; specifically at the political and economic fields, locally and internationally ; in an attempt to bring to the surface a profound perspective on the new world transformations and division. The present article main aim is to approach and investigate the global situation before, during and after the pandemic crisis of 2019 ; in all world continents, from the WWI until the Post Cold War era, not only that, but also to determine the pandemic crisis’s effects and consequences in all sectors as well as on the international actors of the international relations , additionally ; to its impacts on some core concepts in Politics. Through this inductive paper we ; also present an extrapolation of the current world situation in the light of new-traditional struggle between the two great powers in the world : China and the United States ; beside the sweeping explanations of the pandemic outbreak through some theories.

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