{"id":31296,"date":"2017-12-23T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=31296"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:44:32","slug":"najam-interviewed-on-his-new-world-disorder-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/12\/23\/najam-interviewed-on-his-new-world-disorder-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Najam Interviewed on &#8220;New World Disorder&#8221; Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2uAcOkva4j4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/12\/Adil-Najam-Capital-TV-487x300.png\" alt=\"Adil-Najam-Capital-TV\" width=\"487\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/12\/Adil-Najam-Capital-TV-487x300.png 487w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/12\/Adil-Najam-Capital-TV-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/12\/Adil-Najam-Capital-TV-1024x631.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a> of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies was invited by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/newsweekpakistan.com\/tag\/ejaz-haider\/\">Ejaz Haider<\/a><span>, one of Pakistan\u2019s leading foreign affairs analysts and TV news anchors, to appear for a feature interview on\u00a0his\u00a0<\/span><em>Capital TV<\/em><span> news show <\/span><em>Baylaag<\/em><span> to discuss global events that had shaped 2017 and on his thesis of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/11\/02\/adil-najam-delivers-2017-kleh-distinguished-lecture\/\">&#8220;new world disorder.&#8221;<\/a> The interview, which covered the\u00a0entirety of the\u00a040-minute broadcast, were aired on December 16, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The interview elaborated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2uAcOkva4j4\">&#8220;new world disorder&#8221;<\/a> thesis that Prof. Adil Najam has been presenting elsewhere, including at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/11\/02\/adil-najam-delivers-2017-kleh-distinguished-lecture\/\">2017 Annual Kleh Distinguished Lecture<\/a> in London this last November.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview (in Urdu) can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2uAcOkva4j4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The idea of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/11\/02\/adil-najam-delivers-2017-kleh-distinguished-lecture\/\">&#8220;new world disorder&#8221;<\/a> is based on Najam\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/03\/11\/najam-writes-op-ed-on-the-new-world-disorder\/\">essay of the same title<\/a>, published earlier this year. Using evidence from current political trends and developments, Najam presented the argument that the rise of Donald Trump in the United States, Brexit in the United Kingdom, ultra-nationalism in India, and strongman politics in Russia and China are best understood in the context of a much larger global trend \u2013 or a\u00a0New World Disorder \u2013 which was exemplified by what he called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/03\/27\/pardee-school-at-boston-university-latin-american-alumni-summit\/\">\u2018politics of anti-politics.\u2019<\/a> He argued that the so-called \u2018post-truth\u2019 politics is also a global phenomenon and has been aided by technologies, especially social media, that foster \u201ccommunitarian echo chambers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Najam suggested that there is a global public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/03\/11\/najam-writes-op-ed-on-the-new-world-disorder\/\">\u201cdemand\u201d for strongman leaders<\/a> and not just politicians but the\u00a0very idea of politics has come under universal attack. Much of this, according to Najam, reflects the failures of governance by politicians themselves. The result, however, is that \u201ctoday about half the world\u2019s population, two-thirds the world economy, and three-fourths the world military is being ruled by strongmen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The interview was a followup to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/01\/14\/najam-talks-geo-strategy-and-future-of-ir-on-capital-tv\/\">two similar interviews<\/a> on the\u00a0same show that had been conducted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/01\/14\/najam-talks-geo-strategy-and-future-of-ir-on-capital-tv\/\">end of 2016<\/a>, where the wide-ranging<span>\u00a0discussion had also\u00a0focused on the long-term impacts of global\u00a0developments, including on geopolitics in Asia, relations between major power centers in the United States, China, Russia and Europe, and much else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a><span>\u00a0is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and was a former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Learn more about him here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Adil Najam was interviewed on Pakistan&#8217;s Capital TV on how a &#8220;new world disorder&#8221; is now defining global politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9860,1720,9521,10575],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36246,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296\/revisions\/36246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}