Today, the debate on world order is intense. As is always the case in times of transition, the global restructuring of international affairs is generating a deep reflection on how the world is, and how it should be reorganized. After the long frozen period of the cold war and the subsequent years marked by US unipolarism, the world has begun the new millennium with profound shifts. The relative decline of the USA, the crisis in the European Union, the consolidation of the BRIC emerging economies, and the diffusion of the power to non-state actors all constitute significant elements that demand a new conceptualization of the rules of the global game. In this pluralist and changing context, a number of different narratives are presented by the key actors in the international system. This book analyses these narratives in comparative terms by putting them in the wider framework of the transformation in global governance.
Author(s): Sergio Fabbrini, Raffaele Marchetti
Series: Europa Regional Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 173
City: London
Tags: World Politics; International Relations; European Union Crisis; International Organization; World Politics: 21st Century
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction: The debate on global order in a changing world
Theories of international order
Power shift: from the Cold War to multicentrism
The structure of the book
Note
References
Part I: Trends in Global Governance
1. Our New and Better World
Introduction
A better world – at least for the leading states
International politics after the end of history
Conclusions: should the US fight more?
Notes
References
2. Uncertain Global Governance
Four Tricks for Saving Sovereignty
When illusions fall away
References
3. Regionalism and Global Governance
Regionalist studies as a challenge to both neorealism and neoliberalism
The New Regionalist Paradigm
Regionalism and World Order
A heterogeneous global order and an open-ended transition: discussing the recent post-realist literature on regionalism and global governance
Several scenarios for future research
Bridging EU studies and global studies
References
Further Reading
4. The Role of Ideas in Global Order
Maps and models of international politics
The competition among different globalization projects
The great global game
The new global political cleavages
Scenarios of globalization and world order
References
Part II: Regional Perspectives
5. The American Perspective on Global Order
Four Schools Revisited
Obama: Wilsonian ends, Jeffersonian means
After the end of history
Obama’s Hamiltonian exception
Obama 2.0
The succession
The loyalists: left Jeffersonians
Tea Party critics: Jeffersonian to Jacksonian
Obama’s critics: Hamiltonian foreign policy establishment
The crisis of American foreign policy
6. The Chinese Perspective on Global Order
Introduction
From low profile to full engagement
How China thinks about the global order
China as the global number two?
Conclusion
Notes
References
7. The European Perspective on the Global Order Crisis
Introduction
The European Project and the liberal (world) order
The Cold War years
1990–2007: Europe at its zenith
The 2008 crisis and its impact on Europe
Conclusions
Notes
References
8. The Russian Perspective on Global Order
The Cold Peace, 1989–2014
Strategic impasse
World order à la Russe
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III: Conclusions
9 Western Public Opinions Looking East
It takes two to tango … or should we dance in three?
Public opinion and Asia
Support for a ‘rebalancing to Asia’ over time and comparatively
Is it Asia or China?
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
10. Dysfunctional Domestic Politics: Dilemmas for the US and the EU in a changing world
Introduction
A changing world and domestic politics
The dysfunctions of the US governmental system
The dysfunctions of the EU political system
Foreign policy and dilemmas of collective action
Conclusion
References
Index
