postwar order
Post-conflict international arrangement
The postwar order is the system of international relations, institutions, and norms established after a major war—most often referring to arrangements following World War II.
This includes organizations like the United Nations, NATO, and the World Bank, along with principles of collective security and free trade.
Critics argue the postwar order is crumbling under nationalist pressures.
The phrase implies stability achieved through deliberate design rather than accident.
- Marshall PlanPostwar American economic assistance
- United NationsInternational governmental organization
- security councilBody overseeing safety matters
- collective securityShared defense pact system
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
Cold War · NATO · occupation · treaties · Nuremberg · war crimes trials · sovereignty · diplomacy · hegemony · alliance · balance of power · reparations · partition · Berlin · Iron Curtain · demilitarization · refugees · recovery
postwar orderwartime
Period of armed conflict
state of war · hot war · armed conflict · combat operations · total war
postwar orderchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
anarchy · disorder · failed state · lawlessness · power vacuum
post, order, warring, warred, warlike, warrior, warfare, wartime, prewar