New World Order (conspiracy theory) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===General usage (pre-Cold War)=== During the 20th century, political figures such as [[Woodrow Wilson]] and [[Winston Churchill]] used the term "[[new world order (politics)|new world order]]" to refer to a new period of history characterized by a dramatic change in world political thought and in the [[balance of power in international relations|global balance of power]] after [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].<ref name="Knock2019">{{cite book|author=Thomas J. Knock|title=To End All Wars, New Edition: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rluDwAAQBAJ|year=2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-19192-8}}</ref> The [[interwar period|interwar]] and [[Aftermath of World War II|post-World War II]] period were seen as opportunities to implement [[idealism (international relations)|idealistic]] proposals for [[global governance]] by collective efforts to address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual [[nation state|nation-states]] to resolve, while nevertheless respecting the right of nations to [[self-determination]]. Such collective initiatives manifested in the formation of [[intergovernmental organization]]s such as the [[League of Nations]] in 1920, the [[United Nations]] (UN) in 1945, and the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO) in 1949, along with international regimes such as the [[Bretton Woods system]] and the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT), implemented to maintain a cooperative balance of power and facilitate reconciliation between nations to prevent the prospect of [[World War III|another global conflict]]. These [[Cosmopolitanism|cosmopolitan]] efforts to instill [[International relations theory#Liberalism|liberal internationalism]] were regularly criticized and opposed by American [[Paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]] [[business nationalism|business nationalists]] from the 1930s on.<ref name="Buchanan 1999">{{cite book|author= Buchanan, Patrick J.|title= A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny|publisher= Regnery Publishing, Inc.|date= 1999| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=stgGsu74ui4C |isbn= 978-1621571001}}</ref>{{qn|date=August 2016}} [[Progressivism|Progressives]] welcomed international organizations and regimes such as the United Nations in the aftermath of the two World Wars, but argued that these initiatives suffered from a [[democratic deficit]] and were therefore inadequate not only to prevent another [[world war]] but to foster [[global justice]], as the UN was chartered to be a free association of sovereign nation-states rather than a transition to democratic world government. Thus, cosmopolitan activists around the globe, perceiving the IGOs as too ineffectual for global change, formed a world federalist movement.<ref>{{cite web|last1= Hughes|first1= J.|title= Better Living Through World Government: Transnationalism as 21st Socialism|url= http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes1991worgov/|website= Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies|access-date= 10 July 2014|archive-date= 31 December 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131231101826/http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes1991worgov/|url-status= dead}}</ref> British writer and futurist [[H. G. Wells]] went further than progressives in the 1940s, by appropriating and redefining the term "new world order" as a synonym for the establishment of a technocratic [[world state]] and of a [[planned economy]], garnering popularity in [[state socialism|state socialist]] circles.<ref name="Wells 1940">{{cite book|author= Wells, H. G.|title= The New World Order|publisher= Hesperides Press|date= 2006|isbn= 1-4067-2262-6|title-link= The New World Order (Wells)}}</ref><ref name="Wagar 1977">{{cite book|author= Wagar, W. Warren|title= H. G. Wells and the World State|publisher= Ayer Co Pub|date= 1977|isbn= 0-8369-5915-9|author-link= W. Warren Wagar}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page