Drawing on Acharya’s new book 'The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West' which argues that world order is not the monopoly of any civilisation or nation, the panel will discuss three key questions: Firstly, has world order been a shared creation, as the book argues? Secondly, will the end of Western dominance be a “good or bad thing"; and thirdly, what might be the shape of the “next” world order - a return to multipolarity or bipolarity, a revival of US hegemony, a world order of regions, or a “multiplex” world?  

This was a joint event with the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders.

SPEAKERS AND PANELLISTS:

Amitav Acharya, UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC

Louise Fawcett (Chair), Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders

Faisal Devji, Beit Professor of Global Imperial History, University of Oxford

Andrew Hurrell, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, Balliol College, University of Oxford