New World Order

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Popularized by H. G. Wells in The New World Order (1940).

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New World Order

  1. A vision for the world in which greater peace and stability is achieved through a new political order.
    • 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club‎:
      Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
  2. According to conspiracy theories, the planned rule of the world by a secret global elite.
    Synonym: NWO
    • 1992 May 8, John Zeh, Gay Community News, page 3:
      She [Urvashi Vaid] also called Supreme Court justices "unqualified, sexist henchmen of the new world order.

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