Change, Stability, and Hierarchy in International Orders

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Democratic recession, rising state challengers, and populist skepticism of international commitments call the durability of the international order into question. This erosion of the liberal international order is a frequent topic of public concern, but too little academic research focuses on how international orders function, change, and affect prospects for peace. Fortunately, scholars are beginning to fill this gap by focusing directly on questions of hierarchy and international order. Recent literature problematizes the traditional assumption of anarchy to ask how hierarchies are (re)produced and how they impact patterns of peace and conflict. Similarly, international orders scholarship is clarifying how orders function, the impact they have on state behavior, and how they change. This work builds on research about hegemony, international society, and international organizations to ask how states build and maintain stable patterns of international behavior that provide predictability to international life.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security

Cosponsor

• Division 20: Foreign Policy

Individual Presentations

• Illiberal Backlash to the International Order: Where to from Here? - Andrew Goodhart, Ohio State University

• Anarchic Bargain: Power Trajectories and the Tradeoff Motivating Order Formation - Mariya Grinberg, University of Chicago

• Economic Power: Primus Inter Pares? - Igor Kovac, University of Cincinnati; Hector Bahamonde, University of Turku

• What is the Liberal International Order? - Carla Norrlof, University of Toronto

Chair

• Andrew A. Szarejko Naval Postgraduate School

Discussants

• Stacie E. Goddard Wellesley College

• Paul Poast University of Chicago