Can someone explain where the phrase "New World Order" originated?

"The phrase "new world order" or similar language was used in the period toward the end of the First World War in relation to Woodrow Wilson's vision for international peace;[a] Wilson called for a League of Nations to prevent aggression and conflict. The League of Nations failed, and neither Franklin Roosevelt nor Harry S. Truman used the phrase "new world order" much when speaking publicly on international peace and cooperation.[1][2] Indeed, in some instances when Roosevelt used the phrase "new world order", or "new order in the world" it was to refer to Axis powers plans for world domination.[3][4][5][6] Truman speeches have phrases such as "better world order", "peaceful world order", "moral world order" and "world order based on law", but not so much "new world order".[2] Although Roosevelt and Truman may have been hesitant to use the phrase, commentators have applied the term retroactively to the order put in place by the World War II victors including the United Nations and the Bretton Woods system as a "new world order."[7][8]"

"The phrase "new world order" as used to herald in the post-Cold War era had no developed or substantive definition. There appear to have been three distinct periods in which it was progressively redefined, first by the Soviets and later by the United States before the Malta Conference and again after George H. W. Bush's speech of September 11, 1990.

At first, the new world order dealt almost exclusively with nuclear disarmament and security arrangements. Mikhail Gorbachev would then expand the phrase to include United Nations strengthening and great power cooperation on a range of North–South economic, and security problems. Implications for NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and European integration were subsequently included.
The Malta Conference collected these various expectations and they were fleshed out in more detail by the press. German reunification, human rights and the polarity of the international system were then included.
The Gulf War crisis refocused the term on superpower cooperation and regional crises. Economic North–South problems, the integration of the Soviets into the international system and the changes in economic and military polarity received greater attention."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_world_order_(politics)

Could be wrong but my understanding is that it goes back to around WW1 but came in to more play with Bush and Gorbochev. In those cases it was more about delineating between Democracy and other forms of government. But, like so many phrases, it was co-opted in to a conspiracy/enemy type of thing.

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George Herbert Walker Bush uttered that phrase when he was announcing U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf War.

President George Bush Sr. 1988-92. The most ominous political phrase ever.

It can be one of two things:

1) As YnotIsay said: the geopolitical order post-1989. George Bush talked about it as a new world order of liberal democracy, free markets and (this was implied) American domination. It hasn't really lasted because the neoliberal model of capitalism has (and will continue to) produce crises. Also, the rise of China means that America is not as dominant as it was. Francis Fukuyama said that the Berlin Wall coming down marked the End of History and many believed him but the man himself has walked this back.

2) A rightwing conspiracy theory that shadowy elites are puppeteers controlling people in secret. This is related to 'Multural Marxist' conspiracies and QNN. In places, it has anti-semetic undertones.

On SW, people who talk about it will likely mean the latter! 🤣

The concept goes back to the 18th century, and politicians began using it after WWI. We all remember GHW Bush using it in a speech, but the term didn't originate with him.

It was a popular phrase among politicians in the mid-20th century and eventually got picked up by conspiracy kooks to tie to their protocols of the elders of zion nonsense.

It was originally used in politics during the formation of the League of Nations. The idea being that it was the beginning of a new age of diplomacy, since WWI just happened and nobody wanted to go through that again. Well, at least they tried.

Eventually, the conspiracy nuts began associating the "new world order" with biblical prophecy and secret societies. The Illuminati and such.

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George Bush, sr, in ... .1988 I think during his election campaign. Altho he was using it in an approving manner, as you might expect from a prior chieftain of the CIA

It is being used in different ways by different people of different intentions like so many expressions in these confusing times.

sounds rather 3rd riech-ish huh?..

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https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/magazine/on-language-the-new-new-world-order.html

Catholic Church I think

Contemporary usage -- post end of Cold War -- George Bush Sr.

I'll take a crack at that, because I distinctly remember the speech in which it was mentioned. George Herbert Walker Bush actually coined the phrase. He only mentioned it briefly in his vision of the future, but it was enough to get the paranoid conspiracy crackheads talking. They thought he meant a new global government telling us all what to do.

George Bush snr then his son used the paraphrase after 9/11 apparently

Post WW1 in reference to the creation of a League of Nations.