
This sense of urgency has been increased by two developments: a return of great-power competition that increases fears that the West has entered a period of decline and profound and unsettling technological changes which have transformed the basis of social, economic, and political life.

Henry Kissinger argued that creating a new international order, adapted to the realities of the twenty-first century, was the greatest challenge facing statesmen today. There is a pressing need to explore first order questions about the material, political, and intellectual foundations of the current world order and its likely future direction. What is the future of world order? The international system built out of the Second World War is showing signs of strain, if not crisis. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies | Centre for Grand Strategy, War Studies Department, King’s College London The Crisis of World Order The Future of World Order Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation | Henry A.
