Description
Book SynopsisHeterarchy in World Politics challenges the fundamental framing of international relations and world politics. IR theory has always been dominated by the presumption that world politics is, at its core, a system of states. However, this has always been problematic, challengeable, time-bound, and increasingly anachronistic.
In the 21st century, world politics is becoming increasingly multi-nodal and characterized by heterarchy the coexistence and conflict between differently structured micro- and meso quasi-hierarchies that compete and overlap not only across borders but also across economic-financial sectors and social groupings. Thinking about international order in terms of heterarchy is a paradigm shift away from the mainstream competing paradigms of realism, liberalism, and constructivism. This book explores how, since the mid-20th century, the dialectic of globalization and fragmentation has caught states and the interstate system in the complex evolutionary pro
Table of Contents
Section I: Theory and History 1. Heterarchy: Toward Paradigm Shift in World Politics 2. From Postinternationalism to Heterarchy: Turbulence and Distance Proximities in a World of Globalization and Fragmentation 3. Heterarchy and Social Theory 4. New Medievalism (Re)Appraised: Framing Heterarchy in World Politics 5. From Empire to Heterarchy 6. Heterarchy and State Transformation 7. Political Power in a Heterarchical World: A Categorization of Extra-state Authorities 8. Globalization, Heterarchy, and the Persistence of Anomie Section II: Issue Areas and Case Studies 9. Nationalism, Capitalism and Heterarchy: Continuity and Change in the 21st Century World Order 10. Heterarchy and the Limits of Global Governance 11. Metropolitan Diplomacy: Global Metropolitan Law and Global Cities Seen from the Heterarchy Perspective 12. Heterarchy in an Age of Intangibles and Financialization 13. WTO Dispute Settlement and the Appellate Body Crisis as a Case Study of Heterarchy 14. Heterarchy and Global Environmental Change 15. Heterarchy and Global Internet Governance: The Case of ICANN 16. Heterarchy in the Mexican Competition Network: The Case of COFECE and IFC 17. Heterarchy in Russia: Paradoxes of Power
