Liberal World Orders

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.

TIM DUNNE, TRINE FLOCKHART & MARJO KOIVISTO: Introduction; 1: G. JOHN IKENBERRY: Liberal Internationalism; 2: EMANUEL ADLER: Resilient Liberal International Practices; 3: TRINE FLOCKHART: Liberal Imaginations: Transformative Logics of Liberal Order; 4: HEATHER RAE & CHRIS REUS-SMIT: Grand Days, Dark Palaces: The Contradictions of Liberal Ordering; 5: MARJO KOIVISTO: Liberal World Orders, Reciprocal and Hierarchic; 6: RICHARD DEVETAK: 'The fear of universal monarchy': Balance of Power as an Ordering Practice of Liberty; 7: JOHN M. HOBSON & MARTIN HALL: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Eurocentric Liberal International Theory; 8: KIMBERLEY HUTCHINGS: Liberal Quotidian Practices of World Ordering; 9: CASPER SYLVEST: Theoretical Foundations of Liberal Order; 10: CHRISTOPHER HOBSON & MILIJA KURKI: Democracy Promotion as a Practice of Liberal World Order; 11: PAUL MUSGRAVE & DANIEL NEXON: States of Empire: Liberal Ordering and Imperial Relations; 12: TIM DUNNE: Internationalism and Interventionism; 13: STEFFANO GUZZINI: Liberal International Order