The Liberal Order and its Contestations
The notion that we are experiencing a change in times, whereby an old global order is giving way to a new one, has been gaining legitimacy in international debates. As US power is waning, the argument goes, so is the set of liberal norms, rules and institutions around which the United States organised its global supremacy. Ideational contests, power shifts, regional fragmentation, and socio-economic turmoil paint a broad picture of complex and often interrelated challenges that fuel contestation of the liberal order, both as a normative project and as an emanation of US power. Major players China and India, Europe and Russia, and the United States itself are all engaged in a process of global repositioning, most notably in areas where the liberal project has only fragile roots and order is contested: Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. This volume aims to provide critical frames of reference for understanding whether geopolitical and ideational contestations will eventually bring the US-centred liberal order down or lead to a process of adjustment and transformation.
The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of The International Spectator.
Riccardo Alcaro is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali of Rome, Italy. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and is a European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Fellow. He holds a PhD from the University of Tbingen, Germany.
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The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
The Liberal Order and its Contestations. A Conceptual Framework
Riccardo Alcaro
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 110
Diversity Management: Regionalism and the Future of the International Order
Giovanni Grevi
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 1127
Present at the Destruction? The Liberal Order in the Trump Era
John Peterson
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 2844
The EU and the Global Order: Contingent Liberalism
Michael H. Smith and Richard Youngs
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 4556
Global Reordering and Chinas Rise: Adoption, Adaptation and Reform
Shaun Breslin
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 5775
Russias Neorevisionist Challenge to the Liberal International Order
Tatiana Romanova
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 7691
Indias Role in a Liberal Post-Western World
Samir Saran
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 92108
Lost in Transition: The Liberal International Order in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus
Laure Delcour
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 109121
The Middle Easts Troubled Relationship with the Liberal International Order
Paul Salem
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 122137
Order and Contestation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Liberal vs Developmental/Non-interventionist Approaches
Richard Stubbs
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 138151
Contestation and Transformation. Final Thoughts on the Liberal International Order
Riccardo Alcaro
The International Spectator, volume 53, issue 1 (March 2018) pp. 152167
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Riccardo Alcaro, PhD, is Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali of Rome, Italy. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA and is a European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Fellow. His main areas of expertise are US and European policies in Europes surrounding regions.
Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Research Centre based at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre for European Studies at Renmin University, Beijing, China. He is Co-Editor of the Pacific Review.
Laure Delcour is Research Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris, France. Her research interests focus on the diffusion and reception of European Union norms and policies as part of the European Neighbourhood Policy, as well as region-building processes in Eurasia.
Giovanni Grevi is Senior Fellow at the European Policy Centre, Brussels, Belgium. His research interests include EU foreign and security policy, strategic affairs, global governance, US foreign policy and foresight and EU politics.