Analysis On the Reconstruction of International Order in The International Systems: A Case Study of Britain’s Role

Abstract

This paper takes the role of the UK in the international systems as an example to analyze the reconstruction of the new international order in the current international system. Since the complex cognitive path of the concepts of the international system, international order, and international governance system in the academia of IR, this study only analyses the framework based on the previous theories. On the whole, a new order in the international society is positively correlated with the international system because, with the reconstruction of the international order, the internal elements of the international system tend to change, which is likely to lead to the transformation of the international system. After the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the power elements in the international system are redistributed due to diffusion and shift, and the process of power reallocation is a de facto construction process of the new order in international society, which is also likely to lead to structural changes in the international system. As a traditional hegemonic state, Britain has constantly exerted the advantages of the national systems in the evolution of the international systems to provide public goods and flexibly applied its balance of power policy. After the conflict, the rise of British power also brought new changes to the equilibrium pattern in the previous international system, which, to some extent, impacted the hegemonic system dominated by the United States. Furthermore, as a “declined erstwhile hegemon”, its “global Britain” strategy is very likely to affect the current pattern of the international system.