WORLD ORDER

(Redirected from World system)
'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.

★ A small "club" of eccentric adolescents in Canada who refer to themselves as World Order (WO).