Introducing our new initiative: The Better Order Project!
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Greetings,
As conflicts roil the world — and our fractured international order fails to end wars or combat transnational threats — there are plenty of things to be concerned about, and to fight against.
While much of QI’s work is focused on opposing things – out-of-control Pentagon spending, war with China, endless military interventions in the Middle East – today, we’re taking a different tack. We’re working on designing and building a positive vision of a functioning world order that people can be “for.” We’ve undertaken a moonshot effort to defuse the crises emerging from a faltering “rules-based international order” and build something better in its wake. We’re calling it the Better Order Project ([link removed]) .
Over the last year and a half, the Quincy Institute organized two international conferences and brought together 130 global leaders from 40 countries to identify and develop detailed proposals for the most impactful actions the world can take ([link removed]) to build a working international order. Together, the contributors to the Better Order Project — among them former foreign ministers, UN ambassadors, and senior UN officials — wrestled with what it would take to reform our broken systems of global governance and re-center international relations on a law-based, universal approach.
The Better Order Project’s report ([link removed]) advances 20 detailed proposals addressing vital security concerns and instability in the global system, including: developing rules of the road for economic sanctions, tightening norms around the use of force, reforming the UN Security Council, containing rogue AI, avoiding nuclear war, prioritizing climate change, and more.
While the Better Order Project represents a thorough, studied examination of complex global challenges, let’s be very clear: the breakdown of our global governance systems is hardly just an academic concern. Left unresolved, the crises emerging from our failing global order are likely to yield an increasingly fragmented and insecure world that prioritizes coercion over cooperation, is prone to dangerous escalation and arms races, and would be ruinous for U.S. and global security.
We are hopeful that the Better Order Project will inspire a rigorous discussion of how the U.S. can be a productive partner in building a more secure, stable, and capable global system that enables far greater burden-sharing than we see today. The project’s second stage is already underway. Our team is fanning out to seed their ideas in global fora — the United Nations, the G20, and the Munich Security Forum, to name a few. And we’re exploring ways to use art and culture to help the American people see that a multipolar world — one with shared responsibility and effective collective action —will better serve their interests than will the endless American pursuit of global domination.
On November 25, the Monday before Thanksgiving, we’re going to hold a series of webinars that will introduce some of the most prominent players in the project and their key findings. We hope you’ll join — look for more details about the event next week.
Please check out the recommendations at BetterOrderProject.org and share our findings with friends, family, and colleagues. We’re humbled to have your continued support as we work to turn the tides of the 21st century away from more war and deprivation, and towards building a more secure, better future for America and the world.
Sincerely,
Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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