Should the US Lead a New International Order?

26/03/2021 55 min

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Episode Synopsis

World Unfiltered

Guest: Prof. G. John Ikenberry/ Princeton University

Presenter: Prof. Scott Lucas


Timestamps:

1. What is liberal international order? Is it the same in 2021 as in 1999? 03:17 – 07:09
2. What is vital, even essential, in what you call a liberal international order? 07:36 – 10:15
3. How do you draw a universal from your reading of the US and Western Europe into developments at the same time in other parts of the world? 11:01 – 15:28
4. Is the liberal international order "international" when many peoples and communities in MENA, in South America, and in parts of Asia are not part of it? 16:18 – 20:24
5. Does liberal international order does undercut itself in rhetoric, even in values, with an "our way or the highway" approach? 21:14 – 25:41
6. Is the post-Cold War World of the 1990s really that stable beyond the framework of Western Europe? Is it an illusory idea that we are "close to the liberal moment"? 26:48 – 30:17
7. Was the idea of a US-led liberal international order buried once and for all in 2003 with the Iraq War? 31:18 – 36:20
8. Is there a failure of the liberal international order around the so-called "Arab Spring" in 2010–2011, with the failure to protect civilians? 37:18 – 40:51
9. Is it time in 2021 to rethink liberal international order, where we do not start with the assumption of a US leadership or primacy? 41:19 – 47:43
10. How do you convince those who are not in the US or Western Europe that they should be part either of a US led project or of this new coalition for liberal international order? 48:38 – 54:07