2025 Grawemeyer world order award goes to John M. Owen IV for ‘The Ecology of Nations’ | PR Newswire [Video]

University of Virginia professor examines how international system influences, constrains democracies

, /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — For researching and writing “The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order,” an innovative book about the way the international ecosystem constrains and influences democracies, University of Virginia Politics Professor John M. Owen IV will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for World Order, the University of Louisville announced today.

“Owen’s exposition of the role of the international ecosystem marks a major contribution to our understanding of world order.”

John Owen.jpgReminiscent of an earlier era of political science, the wide-ranging work grapples with intellectual ideas that will have direct impact on the worlds of politics, policy, and government — such as the likely future of international order, with an emphasis on the competition between democracies and autocracies. Historically rich and sophisticated, its breadth spans international relations, political theory, and comparative politics.

“Political scientists have tended to analyze democratic longevity and crises in domestic terms,” said University of …