The “End of World Order?” Or the Birth of a New One? | A Lecture Series
The Strategic Studies Program (SSP) of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS) is organizing a lecture, “The “End of World Order?” Or the Birth of a New One?,” featuring Dr. Amitav Acharya. The lecture will take place on two dates. The first will be held on 25 October 2024, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, at the Performing Arts Hall, UP Cebu, Cebu City. The second is scheduled for 29 October 2024, 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 N.N, at the Malcolm Hall Theater, UP College of Law, Diliman, Quezon City. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is first-come, first-served. Participants are encouraged to pre-register.
ABSTRACT
Creating and managing world order is not the monopoly of any nation or civilization. The present world order is no exception.
It is the creation of many societies and states over a long period of time, during which non-Western elements or contributions have been embedded but often obscured by Western colonialism and dominance for the past few hundred years. Some of the most progressive principles of world order today—such as republican government, diplomacy, peace-making, inter-state cooperation, sustainable ecology, human rights, humanitarian warfare, economic interdependence, and freedom of seas—are not unique products of the West but have parallel or prior non-Western origins.
The relative decline of the West and the return/rise of “Rest” are leading to renegotiation of approaches to world order, in which some of the distinctive contributions and preferences of non-Western nations are coming into greater play. The result is not “the end of world order” as Western leaders and pundits lament, but the birth of a more inclusive and multi-civilizational form, which Dr. Acharya has called a multiplex world.
SPEAKER
Dr. Amitav Acharya, Ph.D. is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. He previously was a Professor at York University, Toronto and the University of Bristol, U.K., Fellow of Harvard University’s Asia Center, a Research Fellow of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Christensen Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
His forthcoming book is The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization will Survive the Decline of the West (New York and London: Basic Books), a 5000-year history of world order building across multiple civilizations around the globe.
QUERIES AND ORGANIZER INFO
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The lecture is organized by the Strategic Studies Program of the UP Center of Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS), the University’s policy unit. Visit the UP CIDS Database and download 1000+ policy papers.
This event is also co-presented by the Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) and the Urban Studies Program (USP), along with various partners from UP Cebu, including the UP Cebu College of Social Sciences – Department of Political Science and the UP Cebu Political Science Society, as well as from UP Diliman, particularly the UP Department of Political Science.