Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most violent conflict in Europe since World War II. Foundational norms enshrined in the UN Charter and post-Cold War security agreements have been violated.
The world is also increasingly beset by planetary problems of interdependence -- climate change, health pandemics, and new-era technological competition. In the meantime, liberal democracy everywhere seems to be troubled and in retreat, polarized, contested, and less committed to the values of openness, political compromise, and the rule of law.
Amidst these grand crises of the global order, does liberal internationalism -- that is, the cooperative organization of the global system, led by the liberal democracies -- have a future? Can the United States, Europe, and their allies and partners chart a path to a more stable, open, and just world order? Through which institutions and by means of what arguments might a common global vision be regenerated?
Program
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Professor G. John Ikenberry at the Princeton University gave the lecture "Does the Liberal International Order have a Future?"
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Comments by Professor Helene Sjursen, ARENA
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Q & A
Biography
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.