Or Rosenboim is Associate Professor at Bologna University and Research Associate at the European University Institute’s Global Governance Programme. She has published widely on theories of international relations and global order, most importantly her prize-winning book, The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950.

Her Global Studies Lecture carries the title: 
Inhabiting the globe: An intellectual history of global orders

In the early 21^st century, it has become commonplace to think about politics as ‘global’. Yet how did the global become a meaningful scale of political order? In her talk, Or Rosenboim discusses the emergence of globalism as a perspective on world order. Focusing on the 1940s, she presents a network of public intellectuals in Britain and the United States who developed competing mid-century visions of political order with global reach, based on multi-layered relations between the global and other spaces of political order, including states, regions, federations, continents, and unions. For these thinkers, global order was a pluralistic, democratic response to the end of empire, yet their plans were not without flaws. Rosenboim draws on their ideas to interrogate the meanings of the global as a political project, to outline its limitations, and to reflect upon its potential as a historical and political category today.