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Global Re-Ordering
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The Global Re-Ordering Initiative (GRI) is a research and convening platform based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, in partnership with scholars at the University of Copenhagen and the National University of Singapore.

GRI asks a simple question with high stakes: what happens when an old international order starts to break down before a new one has taken shape?

The post-World War II institutions, rules, and networks of the liberal international order that structured global politics for decades are still standing, but the conditions that built them are gone.

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PAST EVENTS

Watch Our Recent Event on Middle Powers

GRI in collaboration with the R.F Harney Program and the Asian Institute at the Munk School was joined by Professor T.V Paul and Professor Rohan Mukherjee for a discussion on Canada and India’s middle power diplomacy in a changing world order.

EVENTS

2026

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    NOVEMBER 2026

    Wednesday · 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST

    The New Cold War?: Authoritarian Ideologies and the International Order

    Is the world sliding into a new Cold War, or is something stranger taking shape? From Moscow to Beijing, autocratic governments are not just consolidating power at home but promoting competing visions of how the world should be run. This talk brings together two leading scholars to ask what these ideologies actually offer, how they…

    LOCATION

    Campbell Conference Facility Room, 1 Devonshire Place

    More info →: The New Cold War?: Authoritarian Ideologies and the International Order

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Meet Bisman Randhawa

Hear from Bisman, a second year student at University of Toronto on how the international world order is conceptualised and how it impacts students like her tangibly.

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