The Role of Social Conservatism in the Postliberal Order

The world order’s ongoing transition towards multipolarity demands consideration of the ideological principles on which it will be built. Unipolarity’s unsustainability has highlighted the crisis of liberalism as the basis of the world order. This article considers the possibility of establishing a postliberal order based on the principles of conservatism, some of whose postulates will have to be modified. As societies have different traditions that are often incompatible with one another, a conservatism-based multipolar order needs a ‘connective tissue’ that would make it universal and would facilitate global cooperation between different societies. Offering a critique of technofeudalism and transhumanism, this article analyzes social conservatism from the bottom up, as an ideology based on anthropocentricity and the preservation of man amidst rapid technological change.