Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order

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Daniel Deudney (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) G. John Ikenberry (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University)

Debating Worlds

Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order

Daniel Deudney (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University), G. John Ikenberry (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University), Karoline Postel-Vinay (Director of Research, Director of Research, Center for International Studies, Sciences Po)

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Oxford University Press Inc
11 May 2023

Political science & theory; Comparative politics; International relations

"By the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the 1990s the ""liberal ideal"" spread worldwide. Today, of course, this universalistic narrative rings hollow. The global distribution of power has shifted and the preeminence of the West is receding as new directions for world order emerge. China is rapidly ascending as a peer competitor of the United States, bringing with it a powerful new global narrative of grievance and revision. Political Islam also burst onto the global scene as a multifaceted transnational movement reshaping regional political order and geopolitical alignments. With the rapid advance of climate change, there have arisen new narratives of global endangerment and dystopia. Far from converging, fragmentation and contestation increasingly dominate debates over world order.

In Debating Worlds, Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay have gathered a group of eminent scholars in the field to analyze the various ways in which the West's dominant narrative has waned and a new plurality of narratives has emerged. Each of these narratives combines stories of the past with understandings of the present and attractive visions of the future. Collectively, the contributors map out these narratives, focusing primarily on their key features, origins, and implications for world order. The narratives prominent on the world stage are a volatile mix of components, but they also differ in scope--some are regional and civilizational without global aspirations, while others cast themselves as globally expansive and universally ambitious. Covering the most influential narratives currently shaping world politics, Debating Worlds is an essential volume for all scholars of international relations."

Volume editor: Daniel Deudney (Professor of Political Science Professor of Political Science Johns Hopkins University), G. John Ikenberry (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University), Karoline Postel-Vinay (Director of Research, Director of Research, Center for International Studies, Sciences Po)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9780197679319
ISBN 10: 0197679315
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 11 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Deudney is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of several books, including Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity and Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He is the author of eight books, including A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order and Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order. Karoline Postel-Vinay is Director of Research at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris. She is a specialist on the geopolitics of Japan and East Asia, and her books include The G20: A New Geopolitical Order and L'Occident et sa bonne parole: nos représentations du monde, de l'Europe coloniale à l'Amérique hégémonique.