Liberal World Order and Its Critics

Civilisational States and Cultural Commonwealths
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-78812-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 145 g

Reihe: World Politics and Dialogues of Civilizations

Liberals blame the retreat of the liberal world order on populists at home and authoritarian leaders abroad. Only liberalism, so they claim, can defend the rules-based international system against demagogy, corruption and nationalism. This provocative book contends that the liberal world order is illiberal and undemocratic – intolerant about the cultural values of ordinary people in the West and elsewhere while concentrating power in the hands of unaccountable Western elites and Western-dominated institutions.

Under the influence of contemporary liberalism, the international system is fuelling economic injustice, social fragmentation and a worldwide “culture war” between globalists and nativists. Liberals, far from defending rules, have broken international law and imposed their version of market fundamentalism and democracy promotion by military means. Liberal “civilisation” has fuelled resentment across the world by imposing a narrow worldview that pits cultures against one another. To avoid a descent into a violent culture clash, this book proposes radical ideas for international order that take the form of cultural commonwealths – social bonds and crossborder cultural ties on which international trust and cooperation depends.

The book’s defence of an older order against both liberals and nationalists will speak to all readers trying to understand our age of anger. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and readers of liberalism, political theory and democracy, and more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pabst, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Liberal World Order in Retreat 1. Hubris: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal World Order 2. Backlash: The Global Revolt against Liberalism 3. Interregnum: The Battle for Hegemony 4. Commonwealths: The Case for Cultural Association 5. Covenant: The Resurgence of Civilisation. Conclusion: The Once and Future Order

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Pabst is Reader in Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK.