Does It Still Make Sense to Talk About the World Order?

Vain Lamentation or Concrete Agenda?

Flags at the ONU building, Geneva, February 25, 2005. ©Yann Forget/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA

The question of the world order has become an old chestnut in the literature on international relations. There are countless articles that talk about the unraveling of the international order, its disappearance or its collapse. No less numerous are those who d…