Ukraine, Libya, and the Global Enduring Disorder w/ Jason Pack and Jonathan Winer

Join Jason Pack (Senior Analyst at the NATO Foundation and President of Libya-Analysis LLC) and Ambassador Jonathan Winer (Former US Special Envoy to Libya and Non Resident Fellow at the Middle East Institute) for a talk about the current state of the world and American and Western policy towards key geostrategic hotspots framed in light of Jason Pack’s Enduring Disorder concept.

Ukraine, Libya, and the Global Enduring Disorder

The world seems to have gone directly from a hegemonic US-led international system to an interregnum in global order. The traditional phase of multipolarity—or a restoration of the balance of power, or even a struggle among rival systems of order, has been skipped.

Jason Pack’s Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder presents the Libya and Ukraine conflicts as an ideal microcosms for examining the collective action failures typical of our new geopolitics. Jonathan Winer’s Afterword contextualises what the Libya conflict reveals about today’s international arena.

Their talk is an examination of the current state of the world and American and Western policy towards key geostrategic hotspots framed in light of Jason Pack’s Enduring Disorder concept. Broadening out from the discoveries of his core research on Libya, he will discuss how the West’s response to the Ukraine crisis highlights where today’s geopolitics seem to be headed—bringing into sharp focus the need for a Western-led, rules-based global order.

For more background on the book’s main argument and its applicability to the current Ukraine crisis consult, Jason’s recent pieces in New Lines Magazine ‘Why Putin Is Playing Poker, Not Chess‘ or with Foreign Policy ‘Libya’s Chaos Is a Warning to the World’. For his argument for a more robust transatlantic approach to order the current disorder, see his: ‘When the US shrinks from the stage, things fall apart’ — lead article Boston Globe IDEAS Section.