World order
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World order can refer to
- several different concepts:
- The international system comprised of international law, the United Nations, World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as traditional international relations between states.
- The political concept of a post-Cold War new world order as promulgated by Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush.
- The idea of a world government.
- Andre Gunder Frank's and Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system theory.
- The neo-realist concept of hegemonic order arising out of the power relationships that obtain within the overall system of anarchy in international relations.
- Various conspiracy theories concerned with a New World Order.
- the title of a journal:
- World Order, published quarterly, 1935-1949 and 1966-present by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States

