Explore the international institutions designed to promote peace and prosperity.

What Is the Liberal World Order?

Explore the organizations and agreements that have promoted global peace and prosperity since the end of World War II, as well as the challenges that the liberal world order now faces in this video.

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What Is the UN Security Council?

In this free resource, learn more about the United Nations’ most powerful body working to maintain international peace and security, its failures and successes, and why the UN Security Council’s veto power is so controversial.

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What Is International Law?

Explore the history of international law by learning about significant international agreements and the courts that aim to hold countries accountable.

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What Are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund?

What's the difference between the World Bank and the IMF? Understand two institutions that undergird global development and the international monetary system.

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What Is the World Trade Organization?

What is the WTO? In this free resource, learn how the WTO manages the rules for international trade and why it's failing to address today’s most pressing issues.

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What Is the World Health Organization?

What is the WHO? Explore this free resource to learn how the UN agency in charge of international public health responds to crises that threaten global health coordination, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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