This report outlines the findings and recommendations of a two-year project that sought to explore the existing international order, assess challenges to it, and recommend policies to advance U.S. interests in the context of a multilateral order.
This report evaluates the postwar international order's value, assessing its role in promoting U.S. goals and interests and assessing its measurable contributions to specific goals.
As part of a larger study on the future of the post-World War II liberal international order, RAND researchers analyze the health of the existing order and offer implications for future U.S. policy.
This report examines options for future U.S. policies regarding international economic institutions, bilateral and regional security organizations, and liberal political norms.
In this report, RAND researchers analyze Russian views of the current international order, identify Russia's core interests, and highlight the underlying choices for U.S. policy going forward.
This Perspective describes the key principles of the Concert of Europe, analyzes its effects, and draws implications for future U.S. policy toward the international order.
This Perspective examines continuity and change in U.S. engagement with the liberal international order over time, outlines four alternatives for a future U.S. approach to grand strategy, and proposes criteria for choosing among these options.
This conference summary reflects key insights from a January 2016 workshop discussion that informed the next stages of a project titled "Building a Sustainable International Order."
RAND researchers examine the international order in effect since World War II, including the mechanisms by which the order affects state behavior, the engines that drive states to participate, and the U.S. approach to the order since 1945.
There is abundant evidence that the norms and institutions of the post-war international order have helped stabilize world politics and promote U.S. interests, but it appears to be under intense strain from multiple challenges. Senior political scientist Michael Mazarr examines the future prospects of the post-war, American-sponsored order in The Washington Quarterly.
Few foreign policy issues have attracted more attention in recent years than the problem of sustaining the U.S.-led liberal international order. Senior political scientist Michael Mazarr examines the profound foreign policy tasks facing an incoming U.S. administration in this essay published by Foreign Affairs.
The international rules-based order established after World War II seems to be under relentless pressure, threatening its foundations existentially. An essay in the Washington Quarterly by Stewart Patrick, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, examines the post-1945 world order including its attributes, threats to it, its vulnerabilities, and the goals that should shape U.S. policy moving forward.
