New World Order
Brit. /nju wld d/, U.S. /n(j)u wrld rdr/ [< NEW a. + world-order s.v. WORLD
n. 26.]
A new or alternative model of social organization, interaction, or control.
In Polit.: a new balance of power among nations, sometimes as manifested in
arrangements established internationally for preserving political stability;
esp. (in recent use) the state of global politics and the global economy
following the end of the Cold War.
The implication of order in the phrase is often not simply of a social
system (see ORDER n. 16) but also of social cohesion and lawful conduct (see
ORDER n. 18).
1848 P. J. BAILEY Festus (ed. 3) 342 Ye are all nations, I a single soul.
Yet shall this new world order outlast all. 1892 W. R. THAYER Dawn of Ital.
Independence I. II. i. 112 She imagined that in crushing him [sc. Napoleon]
she could crush the new world-order and restore the Past. 1920 F. C. HICKS
New World Order v. 75 From Ladd's time to the present there has been a rapid
increase of interest in plans for a new world order for the purpose of
maintaining peace. 1940 H. G. WELLS New World Order xii. 122 There will be
no day of days, then, when a new world order comes into being. 1977 U.S.
News & World Rep. 6 June 17/1 His basic aim: Build a new world order based
on a U.S. commitment to moral values rather than an 'inordinate fear of
Communism'. 1991 G. BUSH in N.Y. Times 7 Mar. A8/4 And now, we can see a new
world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of
a new world order. 1996 Fuse Winter 7/2 What is new is the centrality
culture holds for conservative visions of a new world order characterized by
home-bound computer workers and isolated consumers.
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