Roundtable: "Whose World Order?" with Evelyn Goh, Andrew Hurrell, and John Ikenberry (in-person only)

Past Event

Date
 03 June 2024, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location
 Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

Changing Global Orders

This roundtable looks beyond the immediate challenges posed by the return of major war and by US-China rivalry and will discuss the crucial question: Whose World Order? Whose ideas of world order will prevail? What kinds of world order are likely to emerge? Which state and society actors have the power and effective agency to shape the practices of international and global order in the coming decade? Whose interests will be, and should be, represented?

With

  • Evelyn Goh, Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies, Australian National University
  • John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
  • Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Emeritus Professor of International Relations & Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders
  • Chaired by Louise Fawcett, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine’s College & Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders

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Evelyn Goh
Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies at the Australian National University

Evelyn Goh is the Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies at the Australian National University, where she is also Research Director at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre. She has published widely on U.S.-China relations and diplomatic history, regional security order in East Asia, Southeast Asian strategies towards great powers, and environmental security. These include The Struggle for Order: Hegemony, Hierarchy and Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2013); ‘Great Powers and Hierarchical Order in Southeast Asia: Analyzing Regional Security Strategies’, International Security 32:3 (Winter 2007/8):113-57; and Constructing the US Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Her most recent edited volume is Rising China’s Influence in Developing Asia (Oxford University Press, 2016), and her latest book (co-authored with Barry Buzan) is Re-thinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities (Oxford University Press, 2020).

She is the co-Managing Editor of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, and serves on the Editorial Boards of various academic journals, including International Security, International Theory, Asian Security, and Journal of Global Security Studies.

Evelyn moved to Australia and the ANU in August 2013, and has held previous faculty positions at Royal Holloway University of London; the University of Oxford; and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. She has held various visiting positions, including Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Southeast Asian Fellow at the East-West Center, both in Washington DC. Major project grants include a UK Economic & Social Research Council Mid-Career Fellowship (2011-12); an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2019-2022); an East Asia Institute Fellowship (2011); and research grants from the British Academy, MacArthur Foundation, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

She holds Masters (1999) and Doctoral (2001) degrees in International Relations and an undergraduate degree in Geography (1996), all from the University of Oxford. She also holds a Masters in Environment & Development from Cambridge (1997).

John Ikenberry

G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2018-19, Ikenberry was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2013-2014 Ikenberry was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, Ikenberry was ranked in the top 10 in scholars who have produced the best work in the field of IR in the past 20 years, and ranked in the top 8 in scholars who have produced the most interesting work in the past 5 years.

Professor Ikenberry is the author of eight books, mostly recently A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020), and Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011). His book, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association for the best book in international history and politics. A collection of his essays, entitled Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order (Policy) appeared in 2006. Ikenberry is also co-author of Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the 21st Century (Princeton 2009), which explores the Wilsonian legacy in contemporary American foreign policy. Ikenberry has also been the editor or co-editor of fourteen books, including America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (Cornell, 2002), The End of the West? Crisis and Change in Atlantic Order (Cornell 2008) and Unipolarity and International Relations Theory (Cambridge, 2011). Ikenberry has authored 130 journal articles, essays, and book chapters.

Professor Ikenberry is the co-director of the Princeton Project on National Security, and he is the co-author, along with Anne-Marie Slaughter, of the final report, Forging a World of Liberty Under Law. Among his many activities, Professor Ikenberry served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff in 1991-92, as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S.-European relations, the so-called Kissinger-Summers commission. He is also a reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.

Andrew Hurrell

Andrew Hurrell
Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College. He was elected to the British Academy in 2011 and to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2010. He is a Delegate of Oxford University Press and a member of the Finance Committee (the board of the company).

His research interests cover theories of international relations; theories of global governance; the history of thought on international relations; comparative regionalism; and the international relations of the Americas, with particular reference to Brazil. His current work focuses on emerging powers and on the history of the globalization of international society. He is completing a short introduction to global governance.

Collaborative projects include: (a) The Post-Atlantic Age: A 21st Century Concert of Powers. The project is based at the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt and is funded by a one million Euro grant from the Volkswagen Stiftung, the Compagnia di San Paolo, and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond as part of their ‘Europe and Global Challengers’ programme. The project does not seek to apply 19th century models directly to 21st century realities. Instead it uses historical and theoretical understandings of major power groupings or concerts to shed light on the dilemmas of contemporary global governance. (b) PRIMO (Power and Regions in a Multipolar Order) is a large-scale 3.5 million euro EU-funded doctoral training network established under the Mare Curie Initial Training Network Programme. It involves network of universities in Germany, the UK, Turkey, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Russia and Portugal, as well as non-academic institutional participation. Oxford has a post-doctoral fellow and two funded doctoral students. Oxford’s work is concentrated on the analytical framework for the programme and on questions related to the globalization of the study of International Relations. And (c) Re-imagining the Global Nuclear Order. This Oxford-Stanford project, supported by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, brings together historians and political scientists from western and non-western countries to examine the changing interaction between the international system and the global nuclear order.

Publications include On Global Order. Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society (OUP, 2008) which was the winner of International Studies Association Prize for Best Book in the field of International Relations in 2009; (with Ngaire Woods), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999); and (with Louise Fawcett), Regionalism in World Politics (1995).

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Louise Fawcett
Professor of International Relations and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow and Tutor in Politics, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

Professor Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow and Tutor in Politics, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, 1995 - present. From 2017-2020 she was Head of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR).

Her research focuses on comparative regional integration studies and the international relations of developing countries, notably the Middle East. Major publications include: Iran and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press, 2009; Regionalism in World Politics (ed. with Andrew Hurrell), Oxford University Press, 1995; The Third World Beyond the Cold War (ed. with Yezid Sayigh), Oxford University Press, 2000; Regionalism and Governance in the Americas (ed. with Monica Serrano), London, Palgrave, 2005; Interregionalism and the European Union (ed. with Mario Telò and Frederik Ponjaert) Ashgate 2015; The International Relations of the Middle East, ed., Oxford University Press, 5th edition (revised and expanded) 2019. She is currently working on a sixth revised edition of the International Relations of the Middle East. Professor Fawcett is a member of the editorial board of the UK journal International Affairs.

She chairs the International Advisory Board of the UN Centre for Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Belguim; she also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. In 2020 she was elected to Belgian Royal Academy (Académie Royale de Belgique) as an Associate Member of the Class of Letters and Moral and Political Sciences.