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Revisiting the World Order Models Project: A Case for Renewal?

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In a context of crisis in global order today, this article proposes revisiting the World Order Models Project (WOMP), towards an evaluation of its relevance and potential contributions to contemporary debates and challenges. From this revisiting, this article argues that WOMP suffered from problematic methodological limitations and does not constitute a substitute for conventional contemporary approaches to global order today, but some of its proposals nevertheless retain relevance, and as a mode of global order research it still offers the potential for providing an important supplement to contemporary approaches, if sufficiently modified to address its methodological limitations. The knowledge this kind of project produces is argued to offer integrative alternative non‐great power‐centric global order policy options that are increasingly in demand, especially from the Global South, as well as from Europe. This article proceeds to revisit WOMP’s research design and outputs, evaluates the arguments of its critics, and outlines the modifying methodological options for a World Order Models Project 2.0.

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  • Aaron McKeil, 2022. "Revisiting the World Order Models Project: A Case for Renewal?," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 13(4), pages 417-426, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:13:y:2022:i:4:p:417-426
    DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13070
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