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Book SynopsisBy the last decade of the twentieth century, the great questions of modernity seemed to be answered. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, the liberal democratic capitalist project seemed to be the only one left standing, and in the 1990s the liberal ideal spread worldwide. Today, of course, this universalistic narrative rings hollow. The global distribution of power has shifted and the preeminence of the West is receding as new directions for world order emerge. China is rapidly ascending as a peer competitor of the United States, bringing with it a powerful new global narrative of grievance and revision. Political Islam also burst onto the global scene as a multifaceted transnational movement reshaping regional political order and geopolitical alignments. With the rapid advance of climate change, there have arisen new narratives of global endangerment and dystopia. Far from converging, fragmentation and contestation increasingly dominate debates over world order
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Debating Worlds Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, Karoline Postel-Vinay Chapter One: Angloworld Narratives: Race as Global Governance Duncan Bell Chapter Two: The Rise and Fall of a Global Narrative: The Soviet Challenge to the Western World Michael Cox Chapter Three: Pan-Islamic Narratives of the Global Order, 1870-1980 Cemil Aydin Chapter Four: The Enduring Dilemma of Japan's Uniqueness Narratives Saori Katada and Kei Koga Chapter Five: Writing the Right: Radical Conservative Narratives of Globalization Jean-Francois Drolet and Michael Williams Chapter Six: The Chinese Global in the Long Postwar: War, Civilization and Infrastructure since 1945 Rana Mitter Chapter Seven: Narrating India in/and the World: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial Contestations Itty Abraham Chapter Eight: Inequality, Development, and Global Distributive Justice Jeremy Adelman Chapter Nine: The Great Schism: Scientific-technological Modernity vs Greenpeace Civilization Daniel Deudney Conclusion: Many Worlds and the Coming Narrative Dilemma Karoline Postel-Vinay
