This book evaluates the current state of world (dis)order at a time of growing populism, nationalism and pandemic panic. It distils the implications of the 'civilisational state' for world order.
Evaluates the current state of world (dis)order at a time of growing populism, nationalism and pandemic panic.
Distils the implications of the 'civilisational state' for world order.
Offers a prescriptive agenda for the coming post-pandemic age that recognises new powers of civilisational, state and hybrid non-state actors.
A sweeping and sophisticated analysis of world order, its complex interplay of culture, geopolitics, economics, and pandemic-induced anxieties, with an eye for key academic and policy debates. A book for the times.
Amitav Acharya, Distinguished Professor at the American University, Washington, DC, USA
As we move from a mono-civilization to a multi-civilizational world, from unipolarity to multipolarity, from unilateralism to multilateralism, it takes a complex encyclopaedia of a mind to grasp and explain these complex changes. Higgott provides it. This fascinating volume is a must-read for our times.
Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, and author of Has China Won?
Richard Higgott is Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy in the Brussels School of Governance at VUB, Belgium; Visiting Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Social and Political Science at the University of Siena, Italy and Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of the UK.
Introduction: Civilisations, Pandemics and Order Part One: States, Civilisations and World Order 1. Making Sense of Liberal International Order: Concepts and Context 2. International Order, the US-China Relationship and Europe 3. Civilisational States and Regions: Actors Beyond a Western Liberal Order 4. Challenges for World Order: Development, Ecology and Pandemics Part Two: A Post Pandemic World Order: Towards a Reset? 5. Civilisational Dialogue as a Vehicle for Reforming World Order: Can the Liberalism-Nationalism Standoff be Negotiated? 6. Relearning Multilateralism: The Principled Case for a Global Reset 7. From Principle to Practice in a Multilateral Reset 8. Ten Propositions and a Provocation on World Order Conclusion