After the Cold War, one of the dominant themes of U.S. policy was to globalize liberal order by efforts to integrate the system’s potential challengers — namely China – so that she would no longer disrupt it. The aim was to create an international system through the use of regional, global and economic institutions and bring all the world’s major powers into a system in which they would be satisfied so that the US will continue to be the hegemon.
QUESTION: Describe the international system that was established by the Western powers (mainly the US) after WW2 by making international organizations as your unit of analysis (Meaning put the IO’s at the center and analyze the global order by means of IO’s). Discuss if the international system is changing? why/why not? What are the effects of the rise of China on the present world order?
