History of New World Order

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	Revision 8 . . September 13, 2001 12:03 pm by Simon J Kissane [*added former President Bush's use of "New World Order", and United Nations use of "New International Economic Order" and "New International Information Order"]

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The New World Order is the object of a belief or conspiracy theory among apocalyptic religious and political extremist groups, especially in the United States, that the United Nations has created a secret plan, known as the New World Order (NWO), to conquer the world. This would be part of the Apocalypse and the Second Coming with the UN and the federal government as agents of Satan.

The term New World Order was used for a while after the end of the Cold War, including by former U.S. President [George H. Bush]?, to refer to the results that the end of the Cold War would have on the international balance of power, including the hope that the end of the Cold War would usher in a new era of international co-operation through the United Nations. Closely related terms, the "New International Economic Order" and the "New International Information Order" were popular in the United Nations and its specialized agencies (especially UNESCO) in the 1970s and 1980s. They were used mainly by developing country groups (e.g. the G-77?, the [Non-Aligned Movement]?) to refer to the redistribution of wealth on a global scale, and the international control of the media to stop the "defamation" of third world countries. Western countries attacked these plans as an attempt to destroy capitalism and freedom of speech; and they were quitely dropped in the 1980s after Western countries threatened to withdraw from United Nations bodies. (The U.S. and U.K. made good this threat by withdrawing from UNESCO; the U.S. still has not rejoined.) A rather different New World Order is the object of a belief or conspiracy theory among apocalyptic religious and political extremist groups, especially in the United States, that the United Nations has created a secret plan, known as the New World Order (NWO), to conquer the world. This would be part of the Apocalypse and the Second Coming with the UN and the federal government as agents of Satan.

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The term "New World Order" was used for a while after the end of the Cold War, including by former US President [George H. Bush]?, to refer to the results that the end of the Cold War would have on the international balance of power, including the hope that the end of the Cold War would usher in a new era of international co-operation through the United Nations. Closely related terms, the "New International Economic Order" and the "New International Information Order" were popular in the United Nations and its specialized agencies (especially UNESCO) in the 1970s and 1980s. They were used mainly by developing country groups (e.g. the G-77?, the [Non-Aligned Movement]?) to refer to the redistribution of wealth on a global scale, and the international control of the media to stop the "defamation" of third world countries. Western countries attacked these plans as an attempt to destroy capitalism and freedom of speech; and they were quitely dropped in the 1980s after Western countries threatened to withdraw from United Nations bodies. (The US and UK made good this threat by withdrawing from UNESCO; the US still has not rejoined.) /Talk?

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