New World Order

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New World Order is a phrase which has been used with utopian or sinister connotations by various individuals and groups, and since the expression was used in a speech by George H. W. Bush to the US Congress (6 March 1991), it has regularly been used in reference to the state of the world after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• There are two rules of war that have not yet been invalidated by the new world order. The first rule is that the belligerent nation must be fairly sure that its actions will make things better; the second rule is that the belligerent nation must be more or less certain that its actions won't make things worse.
  • Martin Amis, "The Palace of the End", The Guardian, 4 March 2003

• Today Europe can propose the principles and rules that will shape a new global order.
  • José Manuel Durão Barroso, (21 October 2008), European Parlament, in Sarkozy calls for EU "Economic Government" (also includes: Barroso, Farage, de Villiers).

• We are indeed living historic moments. The kind of occasion where the crisis calls in to question all certainties and minds are more open to change. These are very special moments and they are not happening everyday. We have to understand that it’s really one of those moments where there is some higher plasticity and then where we can make a real change
  • José Manuel Durão Barroso, (21 October 2008)

• The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world order—can emerge: a new era, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony.
  • George H. W. Bush, speech to joint session of Congress (11 September 1990)

• The hope for the foreseeable future lies, not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions … as the necessity for cooperation is perceived by the relevant nations.… In short, the "house of world order" will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down…. [A]n end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.
  • Richard Gardner, "The Hard Road to World Order", in Foreign Affairs (April 1974), p. 558

• NAFTA will represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War, and the first step toward an even larger vision of a free-trade zone for the entire Western Hemisphere.... NAFTA is not a conventional trade agreement, but the architecture of a new international system.
  • Henry Kissinger, "With NAFTA, U.S. finally creates a new world order " in The Los Angeles Times (18 July 1993), p. M2

• It's a true New Deal at a global scale that is necessary. An ecological and economical New Deal. In the name of France, I call all the states to gather, in order to forge the new world order of the twenty first century.
  • C'est un véritable New Deal à l'échelle planétaire qui est nécessaire. Un New Deal écologique et économique. Au nom de la France, j'appelle tous les États à se réunir, pour fonder le nouvel ordre mondial du XXIème siècle […]
  • French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in a speech before UN general assembly, (25 September 2007)