Order & Opportunity: Making of the Post-Cold War World Order

Order & Opportunity is a 2-4 player game (with a dedicated solitaire system) about the making of the post-Cold War world order covering the first decades of the 21st century. In the game, the United States, Russia, China, and the European Union project their economic, political, and military influence on the global scale. The powers seek to score victory points in various dimensions of game play such as: -Players engage with a wide range of historical world events (e.g. the Libyan Civil War, Saddam Hussein, Ukraine, famines) seeking to resolve them or suffer from the destabilizing effects of continuing crises. -In a semi-cooperative fashion, players champion their form of governance as members of either the Authoritarian or the Democractic blocs. -There are also the slower moving continent-scale pivotal event processes - like the Color Revolutions in Europe or the Tiger Economies of Asia - that give scoring opportunities to players that are the best positioned to benefit from them. -At the same time, players come under domestic pressures from terror threats to polarization in part as consequences of their own economic and political actions as global powers. Order & Opportunity is more than just a power fantasy about global geopolitics. Grounded in topical global history of the 21st century, it puts players face to face with questions about Democracy and Authoritarianism, and about the nature of economic and other forms of power, in a game systems in which players themselves are the agents of these processes. Will you be the force for order, justice and the common good, or does economic opportunism and military adventurism win the day? —description from the publisher