Sponsored by the Australian Institute of International Affairs ACT Branch
We are now living in a world with three leading great powers, all explicitly revisionist. For those accustomed to thinking about global order as being centred on great powers, this is the most significant alteration since the end of the Cold War. The international "rules-based order", in all its key dimensions, is undermined by all three revisionist powers. The master binary – that there is a status quo international order (upheld by the 'good guys') facing off revisionist challengers (the 'bad guys') who want to replace it with something else – was a dubious simplification to begin with. It is now patently dead. This 'all systems change' condition helps to force open headspace, and hopefully policy or institutional space, to re-think some fundamental categories and assumptions.
Professor Evelyn Goh will be receiving her award as an AIIA Fellow before her talk. Participants may join either in-person or online from 6 pm and, for in-house participants, drinks and nibbles will be available from 5.30 pm.
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