{"product_id":"debating-worlds-9780197679319","title":"Debating Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732673605975,"sku":"9780197679319","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197679319.jpg?v=1719997896","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/debating-worlds-9780197679319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}