Object-oriented programming has been bothered by an awkward feature for a long time:
\textit{static members}. Static members not only compromise the conceptual integrity of
object-oriented programming, but also give rise to subtle initialization errors, such as
reading non-initialized fields and deadlocks.

The Scala programming language eliminated static members from the language, replacing them with \emph{global objects} that present a unified object-oriented programming model. However, the problem
of global object initialization remains open, and programmers still suffer from initialization
errors.

We propose \textit{partial ordering} and \textit{initialization-time irrelevance} as two fundamental principles for initializing global
objects. Based on these principles, we put forward an effective static analysis to ensure safe
initialization of global objects, which eliminates initialization errors at compile time. The
analysis also enables static scheduling of global object initialization
to avoid runtime overhead. The analysis is modular at the granularity of objects
and it avoids whole-program analysis. To make the analysis explainable and tunable, we introduce
the concept of \textit{regions} to make context-sensitivity understandable and customizable by programmers.