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New world order .
This article is about the use of the term "new world order" in international politics. For the conspiracy theory, see
New World Order (conspiracy theory). For other uses, see
New World Order (disambiguation).
The term "
new world order" refers to a new period of history evidencing dramatic change in world political thought and the
balance of power. Despite varied interpretations of this term, it is primarily associated with the ideological notion of
world governanceonly in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address global problems that go beyond the capacity of individual
nation-statesto solve.
The phrase "new world order" or similar language was used in the period toward the end of the
First World War in relation to
Woodrow Wilson's vision for international peace;
[a] Wilson called for a
League of Nations to prevent aggression and conflict. The phrase was used to a degree at the end of
World War II when describing the plans for the
United Nations and the
Bretton Woods systempartly because of its negative associations with the failed League of Nations. However, many commentators have applied the term retroactively to the order put in place by the
World War II victors as a "new world order."
The most widely discussed application of the phrase of recent times came at the end of the
Cold War. Presidents
Mikhail Gorbachev and
George H. W. Bush used the term to try to define the nature of the
post-Cold War era and the spirit of
great power cooperation that they hoped might materialize. Gorbachev's initial formulation was wide-ranging and
idealistic, but his ability to press for it was severely limited by the
internal crisis of the Soviet system. In comparison, Bush's vision was not less circumscribed: "A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known".
[1]However, given the new
unipolar status of the United States, Bush's vision was realistic in saying that "there is no substitute for American leadership".
[1]The
Gulf War of 1991 was regarded as the first test of the new world order: "Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. [...] The Gulf war put this new world to its first test".
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