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The Future of Liberal World Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

G. JOHN IKENBERRY
G. JOHN IKENBERRY*
Affiliation:
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International [email protected]
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As these essays show, there is a lively debate over the future of world order. Sergey Chugrow offers a dark portrait of the breakdown of what he calls Western hegemony, driven in part by Russia's grievances and aggression in Ukraine. He points to a future where international order will have a mix of realist geopolitics and post-modern diversity. Keisuke Iida sees the debate over liberal international order as a return to older debates about the viability of hegemonic order and the role of regions and non-Western values in a post-hegemonic global system. Peter Haas sees the debate over liberal international order as a window onto various new forms of global governance. Behind these important observations is Amitav Acharya's vision of a post-American global order marked by diverse regional sub-systems; a world that is globalized, diversified, and localized. These developments lead Acharya to announce the ‘end’ of the American-led liberal international order.

Type
Mini-Special Issue Articles: Whither American World Order?
Information
Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 450 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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