Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of the cultural factor, and patterns of its interaction with social, economic and political developments, in fostering identity-based new populisms and various forms of political authoritarianism across the globe.
Trade Review"This stimulating collection of essays probes the role of culture in the contests over multiple modernities and its discontents. In transcending the conventional binary of East and West, the book develops novel perspectives on some of the most salient issues in contemporary world politics." - Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University, USA.
"This book uses the conceptual framework of multiple modernities to probe the various contestions about global and regional orders. It engages in a dialogue among European, Latin American, and Asian scholars on some of the most pressing questions of our times." - Thomas Risse, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Table of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Part I: Competing Modernities and Models of Modernization 1. Multiple modernities and anti-modernism today 2. Nation-building in the era of populism and the Muslim intelligentsia: The case of Indonesia 3. Can we explain multiple modernities? Suggested insights and their test in a South American context 4. Time, modernity, and the resurgence of right-wing populism Part II: The EU and China: Diverse Identities and Political Prospects 5. Modernization and modernity: Authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics 6. The Political Identity of Europeans and the challenges of the time after modernity Part III: Challenges for a Common Agenda of a New Multilateral Convergence 7. Multiple modernities in a multipolar and multiregional world: Some conditions for an interregional dialogue 8. The crisis of the Western liberal order and the rise of the new populism 9. Populism, globalization, and future world order 10. Conflicting liberties and modernities in comparative perspective. Conclusion
