Ukraine, Libya, and the Global Enduring Disorder
On Wednesday 14 December, NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder’s founder Jason Pack participated in a special discussion at the Vail Symposium, Colorado, USA. Speaking on ‘The Enduring Disorder: Ukraine, Libya and the Struggle for Global Leadership’, Jason was joined by former NBC News correspondent George Lewis for a lively discussion on our era of Enduring Disorder.
According to Jason Pack, the world seems to have gone directly from a hegemonic US-led international system to an interregnum in global order. The traditional phase of multipolarity—or restoration of the balance of power or even a struggle among rival systems of order–has been skipped.
In order to examine the collective action failures typical of our new geopolitics, Pack presents the Libya and Ukraine conflicts as ideal microcosms. He sees the rise of neo-populism throughout the democratic world as connected to this ‘enduring disorder’. In this program, Pack examines the current state of the world and American policy towards key geostrategic hotspots framed in light of Pack’s ‘Enduring Disorder’ concept. Expanding on the discoveries of his core research on Libya, he discusses how the West’s response to the Ukraine crisis highlights where today’s geopolitics seem to be headed, bringing into sharp focus the need for a Western-led, rules-based global order and institutions like NATO.
Text from from Vail Symposium. Read more about the event here.
