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
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 institutional and the moral foundations of the international order are under severe strain: peace is broken or threatened across the world and humanitarian catastrophes are mounting. On Thursday, Apr. 13, three distinguished thinkers asked how — and though which institutions and by means of which arguments — a common global vision might be regenerated.
Reimagining World Order's research director, John Ikenberry, was recently interviewed by Gideon Rachman of the "Financial Times" about the war in Ukraine (2022- ) and broader geopolitical challenges to the rules-based international order.