New World Orders
About our events
In a world of increased conflict and complex entanglements, it can be bewildering to follow the international news, never mind understand the forces shaping global change. Upheaval in US foreign policy alone is changing the world around us faster than has happened in decades.
We bring together the most authoritative voices across economics, law, and politics, to help untangle the threads which bring countries together and divide them – and where the UK sits in it all.
We look at the international flow of money and power, with leading analysts including former US State Department official Edward Fishman and Oxford academic Carl Benedikt Frey. Rana Dasgupta and Ece Temelkuran consider borders and the refugees who must cross them, and we hear from top tier journalists including Anand Gopal and Scott Anderson.
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the origins of the modern Middle East, sinologists Frank Dikötter and Isabel Hilton explore the makings of the Chinese Communist Party, Åsne Seierstad paints a portrait of Russian lives under Putin, and Anthony Seldon explores the impact of 10 years since Brexit.
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports on how the decisions made in Washington play out on the international stage, former Chancellor and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt counters the narrative that Britain’s international influence is in the decline, while John Kampfner argues Britain’s solutions can only be found by looking more outwardly for inspiration.
List of Events
Andrey Kurkov: Telling the Truth
One of Ukraine’s finest novelists (and he’s written 19 of them!), Andrey Kurkov also writes vividly about the personal, political, and…
Lucy Ash: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin
Moving away from the atheism of the 20th century’s Soviet Union, Putin’s Russia has granted the ancient Russian Orthodox Church great…Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us
In an age of global instability and civic decline, what’s gone wrong and what can ordinary people do to bring positive change to the world?…Sebastian Mallaby & Tim Wu: The Extraction Machine
Tech development continues at an unprecedented rate; how do we ensure it works for the good of humanity, not the enrichment of a few? Two…
Rana Dasgupta & Ece Temelkuran: Crossing Borders
National borders are an increasing source of friction as many demand their security, cross them seeking refuge, invade over them, or no…
Molly Crabapple: Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Here Where We Live Is Our Country tells the story of the Jewish Bund, a revolutionary movement not given enough space in recorded history –…Y M Abdel-Magied, Molly Crabapple & Hannah Lilith Assadi: Global Solidarities
What shapes can solidarities take in these times we live in? Join Sana Goyal, editor and publishing director of Wasafiri, for a…
Philippe Sands: 10 Years of East West Street
From Gaza to Ukraine to America and beyond, the rule-bound international legal order appears to be collapsing. Yet, as lawyer and author…
Tim Wu: The Age of Extraction
Professor at Columbia Law School, special assistant to President Biden for technology and competition policy, and inventor of the term ‘net…
Fatima Bhutto: Gaza – The Story of a Genocide
Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent, powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry,…
Anthony Seldon: The Brexit Effect
10 years after the Brexit referendum turned British politics on its head, the culture war ignited by our exit from the European Union…