CWP's Iain Johnston gives lecture at NUS on 'China’s Approaches to International Orders'

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is no single international order. In a more globalized and transnationalized world, orders are not created by conventionally powerful states. They are, instead, the emergent properties of multiple state and non-state actors engaged in myriad interactions, producing combinations of norms and institutions that no one actor necessarily envisions or enacts. There are, therefore, multiple orders in different domains. Many of these orders are contested. Many of them comprised conflicting norms and institutions. It therefore stands to reason that most countries, including the United States and China, actively support some of these orders, actively oppose others, while tolerating still others. The conventional wisdom misses this complexity, and feeds a discourse about great power rivalry in both the United States and China that can close off avenues of cooperation and restraint.

FOI 2022- S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture Series: 'China’s Approaches to International Orders' - The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) is part of the National University of Singapore, Asia’s top university*. It was founded in 2004.

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