The Rules-Based International Order is the post-1945 legal and institutional order. I treat it as a juridical conception of the Globe. It's collapsing, partly because its hegemon has abdicated and partly because it never saw the conditions of production and co-production.
How the word moved
In Feb 2025 I wrote it a requiem in four parts, covering its history, its passions and interests, and its internal contradictions: abdication, the exception as rule, and the conditions of production and co-production. In Apr 2026 I reread it as a set of metabolic guarantees that kept energy, drugs and fuel moving.
In my words
"The Globe is not enough. The Earth is much bigger than the Globe. The Planet is the ultimate giver of order."
from Bhumics Week 4: The RBIO Part 1, 11 Feb 2025
"The Rules-Based International Order was, among other things, a set of metabolic guarantees"
from The Metabolic Sovereignty of India, 7 Apr 2026
Related
- Inherited from Albert Hirschman - what I take from Hirschman is passions and interests as the emotional basis of the order.
- Related Globe - the RBIO is the juridical conception of the Globe.
- Related Abdication of the Leviathan - abdication is its first internal contradiction.
- Related Co-Re-Production - it was blind to the conditions of production and co-production.
- Related Metabolic Order - later I reread it as a metabolic order.
- Related Weight of Government - I study the RBIO to understand the weight of government.
- Related Securitarian Globe - the securitarian globe is its successor.
Still open
I call it liberal imperialism - but it is! but it is! - and still critique it from inside. How much of it is worth keeping, I don't know.