{"product_id":"a-world-of-struggle-9780691180878","title":"A World of Struggle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “What’s the Best Book, New or Old, You Read this Year?” 2016\"\u003cbr\u003e\"David Kennedy's \u003ci\u003eA World of Struggle \u003c\/i\u003edescribes our world more accurately than any book I have read this year.\"\u003cb\u003e---Pankaj Mishra, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his new book on how the world is ruled today through expert knowledge, Professor David Kennedy enters this continuing discussion in brilliant, pathbreaking, and trademark fashion. . . . Presented without theoretical encumbrance or jargon, \u003ci\u003eA World of Struggle \u003c\/i\u003eis a straightforward but sophisticated account. . . . The superlative book wins its distinction not only because it constructs a novel theory but also because it applies that theory to how the globe as a whole is ruled--something no one in the canon of social theory has really done.\"\u003cb\u003e---Samuel Moyn, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Accounts of global politics are usually organized around time periods of settled order, during which powerful states laid down rules and established institutions. In this illuminating study, Kennedy tells a different story, in which contemporary international relations play out as a continuous struggle between technocratic elites around the world, in which nothing is ever settled and everything is negotiable.\"\u003cb\u003e---G. John Ikenberry, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A profound and arresting account of how globalization is constructed by experts who obfuscate their own role. . . . It is surely worth reading to understand yesterday's world--and very likely tomorrow’s as well.\"\u003cb\u003e---Tom Ginsburg, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of International Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Given the tendency of hidden background decisions and dominant scripts to reproduce inequality and injustice, what role \u003ci\u003eshould \u003c\/i\u003eexpertise play? \u003ci\u003eWorld of Struggle \u003c\/i\u003eargues less for abandonment than reimagination. In this work, Kennedy continues his long-term project of uncovering the hidden implications of multiple mundane “expert” decisions that shape a paradoxical world: one both unstable and unshakable. Here, fi nally, is the foundational ambition of \u003ci\u003eWorld of Struggle \u003c\/i\u003eand its challenge to readers: to undo the hegemony of common sense, to unlearn the boundaries of reason, to unsettle what has seemingly been seamlessly resolved, to untell the familiar stories of binaries and boundaries, to uncover the struggles that expertise obscures, and thus to unleash the possibility of remaking the world.\"\u003cb\u003e---Zinaida Miller, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Legal Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403857043799,"sku":"9780691180878","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691180878.jpg?v=1730484735","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-world-of-struggle-9780691180878","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}