States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order

ISBN-13: 9781032006505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Richard Higgott

Opis

This book evaluates the current state of world (dis)order at a time of growing populism, nationalism and pandemic panic. It distils the implications of the ‘civilisational state’ for world order.

Spis treści

Introduction: Civilisations, Pandemics and Order  Part One: States, Civilisations and World Order  1. Making Sense of Liberal International Order: Concepts and Context  2. International Order, the US-China Relationship and Europe  3. Civilisational States and Regions: Actors Beyond a Western Liberal Order  4. Challenges for World Order: Development, Ecology and Pandemics  Part Two: A Post Pandemic World Order: Towards a Reset?  5. Civilisational Dialogue as a Vehicle for Reforming World Order: Can the Liberalism–Nationalism Standoff be Negotiated?  6. Relearning Multilateralism: The Principled Case for a Global Reset  7. From Principle to Practice in a Multilateral Reset  8. Ten Propositions and a Provocation on World Order  Conclusion

O autorze

Richard Higgott is Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy in the Brussels School of Governance at VUB, Belgium; Visiting Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Social and Political Science at the University of Siena, Italy and Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of the UK.