World order

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World order can refer to several different concepts:

• The international system comprised of international law, the United Nations, World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as traditional international relations between states.
• The political concept of a post-Cold War new world order as promulgated by Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush.
• The idea of a world government.
• Immanuel Wallerstein's world-system theory.
• The neo-realist concept of hegemonic order arising out of the power relationships that obtain within the overall system of anarchy in international relations.
• Various conspiracy theories concerned with a New World Order.