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Book SynopsisLiberal World Order is seen by many as either a fading international order in response to declining American hegemony, or as a failing international order riddled with internal tensions and contradictions. Either way, liberal world order is assumed to be in crisis. The contributors to Liberal World Orders do not reject the argument that liberal order is in crisis. Instead they contend that the crisis is primarily one of authority. This has been compounded by the relative lack of historical context supplied by liberal theorists of ''the international''. By not looking further than the 20th century, the field has ignored moments when similar tensions and contradictions have been evident.The authors question the way in which the debate about liberalism has been conducted. Against the theoreticians it is proposed that liberalism has suffered from being too closely tied to the quest for scientific authenticity, resulting in a theoretical perspective with little or no commitment to political
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Liberal Internationalism ; 2. Resilient Liberal International Practices ; 3. Liberal Imaginations: Transformative Logics of Liberal Order ; 4. Grand Days, Dark Palaces: The Contradictions of Liberal Ordering ; 5. Liberal World Orders, Reciprocal and Hierarchic ; 6. 'The fear of universal monarchy': Balance of Power as an Ordering Practice of Liberty ; 7. Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Eurocentric Liberal International Theory ; 8. Liberal Quotidian Practices of World Ordering ; 9. Theoretical Foundations of Liberal Order ; 10. Democracy Promotion as a Practice of Liberal World Order ; 11. States of Empire: Liberal Ordering and Imperial Relations ; 12. Internationalism and Interventionism ; 13. Liberal International Order
