About
The Princeton project on Reimagining World Order is a three-year PIIRS-funded international research community that seeks to foster debate and collaboration among a diverse range of scholars over the character and future of global order. Our goal is to enliven scholarly and public thinking about possible “future world orders” by exploring the history, politics, and theory of international order.
Princeton Principles
The Princeton Principles' 10 tenets address how countries interact with each other, economic development and competition, human rights, nuclear weaponry, dispute settlement, and territorial and regime integrity.
A group of international scholars and public intellectuals, deeply concerned by the state of the world, convened at Princeton for a kind of latter-day constitutional convention, this one aimed at fostering unity on a global level. The COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and strained relations between the United States and China are among the matters that inspired the initiative.
Working Papers
Read working papers that were developed or presented as part of RWO's conferences, seminars or workshops.
Podcast
RWO produces a monthly podcast, which engages leading scholars of world order from around the world to discuss their intellectual journeys, theoretical contributions and our present discontents.
Conferences, Seminars and Workshops
The community hosts a reading group, research workshops, a colloquium for invited speakers, an annual conferences on big topics and themes associated with the study of world order, and auxiliary research workshops.
Recent News
The RWO team sat down for an interview with Andrew Hurrell. Andy was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society (2007), and has published leading articles and edited volumes on all the big topics…
The RWO team sat down for an interview with Ayşe Zarakol. Ayşe is a Professor at the University of Cambridge and the author of various field-defining books and articles. In the interview, we discuss her intellectual journey, her research, and her takes on the current state of international order.
The interview can be found be…
On November 6, the Reimagining World Order Colloquium hosted "Subordinate Disobedience in Hierarchical International Orders: Evidence from U.S.-Brazil relations" with John De Bhal, postdoctoral research associate.