Programme Co-Directors Patricia Clavin and Andy Hurrell are co-Chairs of the Global (Dis)Order international policy programme, a joint initiative of the British Academy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Its intention is to generate fresh insights and creative thinking for the awareness of and uptake by policymakers and practitioners.

The programme focuses on understanding the history, current nature and potential future trajectories of the global order and provides an opportunity to think in broader, longer-range ways, drawing in a breadth of disciplines and expertise from policy, practice and research, both historical and future-oriented.

The programme directors were involved in two days of meetings at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and The German Council for Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik) in Berlin. Professor Hurrell chaired a panel on the theme of “A New Cold War?” The session noted that the Cold War has changed its character through time and has been infused by ideology, geopolitics, alternative social models and many different forms of global understandings.

The debate also considered the potential for a new Cold War, and the interaction between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ considering the prism of US-China rivalry.

The panelists included Professor Michael Zürn, WZB Social Science Center; Professor Gwen Sasse, Humboldt University Berlin; Dr Stewart Patrick, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Earlier in the day,  Professor Clavin presented on ‘The Usable Past and Global Capitalism’ as part of panel discussions on ‘The Multiple Appeals to History: Conceptual and Historical Underpinnings of International Order’.

Photo: The British Academy/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (L to R) Stewart Patrick, Gwen Sasse, Michael Zürn, Andrew Hurrell