Does the Liberal International Order have a Future?

About the Speech:

In his address to the IIEA, Professor Ikenberry surveys the mounting challenges to the liberal international order -- the rise of China and Russia as illiberal challengers, cascading problems of interdependence, the end of the long-era of global dominance by the United States and its liberal democratic partners, and the failings of liberal democracy.  Looking back at its failures, accomplishments, and reinventions, Professor Ikenberry argues that liberal internationalism – with its vision of an open, multilateral, and problem-solving governance logic – still has a future.

About the Speaker:

John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs. Professor Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of eight books, most recently, A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism in the Making of Modern World Order (Yale, 2020), which was a finalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award and listed as “Best of the Year” by Foreign Policy magazine.