An Introduction to Disorder
Will the Disorder Endure?
Welcome to the Era of Global Enduring Disorder…
We have sleepwalked into an era of truly global enduring disorder. Join us on a journey through a world of renewed great power competition, unregulated cyberspace, soaring neo-populism, ungoverned spaces, tax havens and more…
Our contributors are experts in their field with an eye on our increasingly disordered world and a mind on how to solve it. Can we develop coordination mechanisms to spur collective action and tackle the horsemen of Disorder that confront us: war, disinformation, climate change, corruption?
How can we reorder our world so that we respond to these crises coherently and sanely, acting on expert advice rather than the whims of self-serving disorder-sowing politicians and bad-faith actors looking out to guard their own profits? How can we reform our outdated institutions, built for purpose in a world and geopolitical context vastly different to the reality of the second decade of the 21st century?
In this project we seek to understand the salient, interlinked issues of the era, which we gather under the following themes:
Game Theory & Stakeholder Psychology
The Struggle for Global Leadership
The project will be complemented by a flagship show, Disorder, where project director Jason Pack and former HM Ambassador Alexandra Hall Hall will host a plethora of guests from a colourful swathe of backgrounds to share their expertise, their personal experience of the disorder and their insights on how to escape it. Together we will learn how to understand the onion-layers of the global enduring disorder, retrace the steps of how we got here, and discuss what steps forward we can take as we begin to to re-order the chaos…
For a taste of the disorder, see below…
The Rise of Granfalloon Politics
Why are humans aligning themselves into meaningless groups that hate each other more than ever before? Borrowing a whimsical framework from author Kurt Vonnegut, Brian Klaas explores the political implications of the karass and the granfalloon in Garden of the Forking Paths.
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Saudi Nationalism and the End of Pax Americana
After turbulent years of aligning along sectarian divisions, the Middle East is getting back to its comfort zone: authoritarian nationalism. But this time, the US isn't in the centre picture. Arthur Snell explores in Not all Doom.
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Watch this space for more updates as our project evolves… and don’t hesitate to get in touch and join the conversation!
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To many more months of unravelling the disorder…
Hi Christina, if you would like to reach out to me about Libya consulting work or connections in the field... do email me at Jason@Libya-Analysis.com... thanks
I don't suppose by any chance you would have any contact with people who were loyal to Muammar Gaddafi? I am looking for collaboration for an important piece I am writing about the British involvement in his murder from as far back as 1984 when the Intel services began to employ the 'snitch' services of a very prominent Libyan business man named Luay Adham to pass sensitive information to enable them to take him & his country down.... I know why they did it & it has nothing to do with oil or his alleged evil regime! There is much, much more to the story.