The Liberal World Order And Beyond

Author : Harry Verhoeven,Anatol Lieven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197654217

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Beyond Liberal Order by Harry Verhoeven,Anatol Lieven Pdf

What does liberal order actually amount to outside the West, where it has been most institutionalised? Contrary to the Atlantic or Pacific, liberal hegemony is thin in the Indian Ocean World; there are no equivalents of NATO, the EU or the US-Japan defence relationship. Yet what this book calls the 'Global Indian Ocean' was the beating heart of earlier epochs of globalisation, where experiments in international order, market integration and cosmopolitanisms were pioneered. Moreover, it is in this macro-region that today's challenges will face their defining hour: climate change, pandemics, and the geopolitical contest pitting China and Pakistan against the USA and India. The Global Indian Ocean states represent the greatest range of political systems and ideologies in any region, from Hindu-nationalist India and nascent democracy in Indonesia and South Africa, to the Gulf's mixture of tribal monarchy and high modernism. These essays by leading scholars examine key aspects of political order, and their roots in the colonial and pre-colonial past, through the lenses of state-building, nationalism, international security, religious identity and economic development. The emergent lessons are of great importance for the world, as the 'global' liberal order fades and new alternatives struggle to be born.

Author : V. E. Parsi,E. Fassi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8834341511

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The Liberal World Order and Beyond by V. E. Parsi,E. Fassi Pdf

Author : Leon Fink
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231554466

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Undoing the Liberal World Order by Leon Fink Pdf

In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water’s edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom. Chastened in part by the failures of these grand aspirations, in recent years liberals and the Left have retreated from such idealism. Today, as a beleaguered United States confronts a series of crises, does the postwar liberal tradition offer any useful lessons for American engagement with the world? The historian Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. From the reconstruction of post-Nazi West Germany to the struggle against apartheid, he shows how American liberals joined global allies in pursuit of an expansive political, social, and economic vision. Even as liberal internationalism brought such successes to the world, it also stumbled against domestic politics or was blind to the contradictions in capitalist development and the power of competing nationalist identities. A diplomatic history that emphasizes the roles of social class, labor movements, race, and grassroots activism, Undoing the Liberal World Order suggests new directions for a progressive American foreign policy.

Author : Robert Jervis,Francis J. Gavin,Joshua Rovner,Diane N. Labrosse
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231547789

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Chaos in the Liberal Order by Robert Jervis,Francis J. Gavin,Joshua Rovner,Diane N. Labrosse Pdf

Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, historians, and international-relations scholars, Chaos in the Liberal Order explores the global trends that led to Trump’s stunning victory and the impact his presidency will have on the international political landscape. Contributors situate Trump among past foreign policy upheavals and enduring models for global governance, seeking to understand how and why he departs from precedents and norms. The book considers key issues, such as what Trump means for America’s role in the world; the relationship between domestic and international politics; and Trump’s place in the rise of the far right worldwide. It poses challenging questions, including: Does Trump’s election signal the downfall of the liberal order or unveil its resilience? What is the importance of individual leaders for the international system, and to what extent is Trump an outlier? Is there a Trump doctrine, or is America’s president fundamentally impulsive and scattershot? The book considers the effects of Trump’s presidency on trends in human rights, international alliances, and regional conflicts. With provocative contributions from prominent figures such as Stephen M. Walt, Andrew J. Bacevich, and Samuel Moyn, this timely collection brings much-needed expert perspectives on our tumultuous era.

Author : Georg Sørensen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801463303

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A Liberal World Order in Crisis by Georg Sørensen Pdf

The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades liberal democracies have not been able to create an effective and legitimate liberal world order. In A Liberal World Order in Crisis, Georg Sorensen suggests that this is connected to major tensions between two strains of liberalism: a "liberalism of imposition" affirms the universal validity of liberal values and is ready to use any means to secure the worldwide expansion of liberal principles. A "liberalism of restraint" emphasizes nonintervention, moderation, and respect for others. This book is the first comprehensive discussion of how tensions in liberalism create problems for the establishment of a liberal world order. The book is also the first skeptical liberal statement to appear since the era of liberal optimism—based in anticipation of the end of history—in the 1990s. Sorensen identifies major competing analyses of world order and explains why their focus on balance-of-power competition, civilizational conflict, international terrorism, and fragile states is insufficient.

Author : Marko Lehti,Henna-Riikka Pennanen,Jukka Jouhki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030220594

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Contestations of Liberal Order by Marko Lehti,Henna-Riikka Pennanen,Jukka Jouhki Pdf

This volume explores the Western-led liberal order that is claimed to be in crisis. Currently, the West appears less as a modernizing or civilizing entity leading the way and more as being engulfed in a deep crisis. Simultaneously, the West still appears to be needed in order to imagine the global order by promoters of liberal peace as well as its opponents. This book asks how and why “crisis” is needed for constituting “the West,” liberal, and global order and how these three are conjoined and reinvented. The book encompasses narratives endorsing and rejecting the West and the liberal international order, as well as alternative visions for a post-Western world conceived within the rising and challenging powers. The study is of interest to scholars and students of international relations, critical security studies, peace and conflict research, and social sciences in general.

Author : Adrian Pabst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429670954

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Liberal World Order and Its Critics by Adrian Pabst Pdf

Liberals blame the retreat of the liberal world order on populists at home and authoritarian leaders abroad. Only liberalism, so they claim, can defend the rules-based international system against demagogy, corruption and nationalism. This provocative book contends that the liberal world order is illiberal and undemocratic – intolerant about the cultural values of ordinary people in the West and elsewhere while concentrating power in the hands of unaccountable Western elites and Western-dominated institutions. Under the influence of contemporary liberalism, the international system is fuelling economic injustice, social fragmentation and a worldwide “culture war” between globalists and nativists. Liberals, far from defending rules, have broken international law and imposed their version of market fundamentalism and democracy promotion by military means. Liberal “civilisation” has fuelled resentment across the world by imposing a narrow worldview that pits cultures against one another. To avoid a descent into a violent culture clash, this book proposes radical ideas for international order that take the form of cultural commonwealths – social bonds and crossborder cultural ties on which international trust and cooperation depends. The book’s defence of an older order against both liberals and nationalists will speak to all readers trying to understand our age of anger. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and readers of liberalism, political theory and democracy, and more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.

Author : G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300256093

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A World Safe for Democracy by G. John Ikenberry Pdf

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment. Creating an international “space” for liberal democracy, preserving rights and protections within and between countries, and balancing conflicting values such as liberty and equality, openness and social solidarity, and sovereignty and interdependence—these are the guiding aims that have propelled liberal internationalism through the upheavals of the past two centuries. G. John Ikenberry argues that in a twenty-first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence, liberal internationalism—reformed and reimagined—remains the most viable project to protect liberal democracy.

Author : Stephen M. Walt
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780374712464

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The Hell of Good Intentions by Stephen M. Walt Pdf

From the New York Times–bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy—explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it. In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power and Americans were confident that a new era of peace and prosperity was at hand. Twenty-five years later, those hopes have been dashed. Relations with Russia and China have soured, the European Union is wobbling, nationalism and populism are on the rise, and the United States is stuck in costly and pointless wars that have squandered trillions of dollars and undermined its influence around the world. The root of this dismal record, Walt argues, is the American foreign policy establishment’s stubborn commitment to a strategy of “liberal hegemony.” Since the end of the Cold War, Republicans and Democrats alike have tried to use U.S. power to spread democracy, open markets, and other liberal values into every nook and cranny of the planet. This strategy was doomed to fail, but its proponents in the foreign policy elite were never held accountable and kept repeating the same mistakes. Donald Trump won the presidency promising to end the misguided policies of the foreign policy “Blob” and to pursue a wiser approach. But his erratic and impulsive style of governing, combined with a deeply flawed understanding of world politics, are making a bad situation worse. The best alternative, Walt argues, is a return to the realist strategy of “offshore balancing,” which eschews regime change, nation-building, and other forms of global social engineering. The American people would surely welcome a more restrained foreign policy, one that allowed greater attention to problems here at home. This long-overdue shift will require abandoning the futile quest for liberal hegemony and building a foreign policy establishment with a more realistic view of American power. Clear-eyed, candid, and elegantly written, Stephen M. Walt’s The Hell of Good Intentions offers both a compelling diagnosis of America’s recent foreign policy follies and a proven formula for renewed success.

Author : G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691156170

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Liberal Leviathan by G. John Ikenberry Pdf

In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in providing security and prosperity to more people, but in the last decade the American-led order has been troubled. Some argue that the Bush administration undermined it. Others argue that we are witnessing he end of the American era. In Liberal Leviathan G. John Ikenberry argues that the crisis that besets the American-led order is a crisis of authority. The forces that have triggered this crisis have resulted from the successful functioning and expansion of the postwar liberal order, not its breakdown.

Author : Élise Féron,Jyrki Käkönen,Gabriel Rached
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847414971

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Revisiting Regionalism and the Contemporary World Order by Élise Féron,Jyrki Käkönen,Gabriel Rached Pdf

The book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in the regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics of cooperation, from a multi-disciplinary and pluralist perspective. It is based on the insight that in a post-hegemonic world the formation of regions and the process of globalization can be largely disconnected from the orbit of the US, and that a plurality of power and worldviews has replaced US hegemony. In spite of these changes, most existing analyses of current changes in the world order still rely upon Western-centered approaches, and Westphalian thinking. Against this backdrop, the book proposes to advance a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, and weaves together the pluralist and multi-disciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world.

Author : Vittorio Emanuele Parsi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030720446

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The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order by Vittorio Emanuele Parsi Pdf

The Liberal World Order was a political project designed to keep together as harmoniously as possible state sovereignty-in its liberal-democratic version-and market economy-entailing free trade on the international level. Framed in this unique way, those three concepts-'international order,' 'sovereignty' and 'market economy'-have characterized the rise of political modernity. This book states that since the 1980s the Liberal World Order has been gradually replaced by a 'Neoliberal Global Order' and exposes the intellectual premises to revive and restore the balance between democracy and market-based economy, the fundamental premise upon which both liberal democracies and the LWO have been built. Vittorio Emanuele Parsi is Professor of International Relations at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) and Director of ASERI (Graduate School of Economics and International Relations). " Vittorio Parsi offers a sweeping and penetrating account of the rise and fall of the modern liberal international order. Elegant, erudite, and insightful, Parsi chronicles the stormy voyage of the Western democracies as they search for calmer seas and gentler winds." G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University, USA "Vittorio Parsi, one of Italy's leading scholars of international politics, has produced an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the postwar liberal order, what went wrong with it, and whether it might be restored. Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College, USA "One of Europe's most original thinkers offers a penetrating assessment of the Liberal World Order and its prospects. Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, USA "Parsi has written a book of tremendous importance. For anyone interested in a serious examination of the emerging world order, post-Trump and post-COVID, The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order is a must read". Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University, Qatar "Vittorio Parsi's is exactly the right book for anyone-student, teacher, news reporter, or policymaker-who wants to understand how our domestic and global politics and economics came to such a sorry state, and what we can do to build a better future. Joseph M. Grieco, Duke University, USA.

Author : Daniel A. Bell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400827466

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Beyond Liberal Democracy by Daniel A. Bell Pdf

Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal Democracy, which continues the author's influential earlier work, is divided into three parts that correspond to the three main hallmarks of liberal democracy--human rights, democracy, and capitalism. These features have been modified substantially during their transmission to East Asian societies that have been shaped by nonliberal practices and values. Bell points to the dangers of implementing Western-style models and proposes alternative justifications and practices that may be more appropriate for East Asian societies. If human rights, democracy, and capitalism are to take root and produce beneficial outcomes in East Asia, Bell argues, they must be adjusted to contemporary East Asian political and economic realities and to the values of nonliberal East Asian political traditions such as Confucianism and Legalism. Local knowledge is therefore essential for realistic and morally informed contributions to debates on political reform in the region, as well as for mutual learning and enrichment of political theories. Beyond Liberal Democracy is indispensable reading for students and scholars of political theory, Asian studies, and human rights, as well as anyone concerned about China's political and economic future and how Western governments and organizations should engage with China.

Author : Michael W. Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136644559

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Liberal Peace by Michael W. Doyle Pdf

Comprising essays by Michael W. Doyle, Liberal Peace examines the special significance of liberalism for international relations. The volume begins by outlining the two legacies of liberalism in international relations - how and why liberal states have maintained peace among themselves while at the same time being prone to making war against non-liberal states. Exploring policy implications, the author focuses on the strategic value of the inter-liberal democratic community and how it can be protected, preserved, and enlarged, and whether liberals can go beyond a separate peace to a more integrated global democracy. Finally, the volume considers when force should and should not be used to promote national security and human security across borders, and argues against President George W. Bush’s policy of "transformative" interventions. The concluding essay engages with scholarly critics of the liberal democratic peace. This book will be of great interest to students of international relations, foreign policy, political philosophy, and security studies.

Author : Tim Dunne,Trine Flockhart
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0197265529

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Liberal World Orders by Tim Dunne,Trine Flockhart Pdf

Liberal World Orders is a timely contribution to debates about the current world order in the face of declining US hegemony and rising new powers. It examines the history and durability of liberal thought. Neo-liberalism is criticised as a theoretical perspective ill-equipped to understand the current crisis or possibilities for its amelioration.