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The crisis of the conservative international order

Rethinking the role of conservatism in the postwar global order

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Nov 21 2024

15:30 - 17:00 CET

Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia

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Join Michael Williams as he explores the conservative foundations and current crisis of the international order.
The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) is the dominant narrative of our time. It pervades scholarship, journalism, and policy discussion, shaping the way we see contemporary global tensions, future possibilities, and political choices. This paper argues that what we are witnessing is not simply a crisis of the LIO, but of the conservative international order (CIO). The postwar order was not constructed by liberals alone; it was also built by conservative governments, politicians, and intellectuals who were crucial to the domestic and international accommodations, coalitions, and alliances that underpinned the creation and maintenance of the postwar order. The crisis we are witnessing today is, to a large degree, the result of the implosion within conservatism, which has transformed it from a supporter of that order to one of its most powerful opponents.

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