{"product_id":"world-of-struggle-9780691146782","title":"World of Struggle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience wo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected for The New York Times Book Review's \"What's the Best Book, New or Old, You Read this Year?\" 2016 \"David Kennedy's A World of Struggle describes our world more accurately than any book I have read this year. Kennedy offers no clear prescriptions. Yet he clarifies that understanding how this world of injustice and inequality came about is the essential first step toward a democratic alternative.\"--Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review \"In his new book on how the world is ruled today through expert knowledge, Professor David Kennedy enters this continuing discussion in brilliant, pathbreaking, and trademark fashion... Presented without theoretical encumbrance or jargon, A World of Struggle is a straightforward but sophisticated account that capitalizes on prior insight to achieve a unique and powerful vantage point. The superlative book wins its distinction not only because it constructs a novel theory but also because it applies that theory to how the globe as a whole is ruled--something no one in the canon of social theory has really done.\"--Samuel Moyn, Harvard Law Review \"Accounts of global politics are usually organized around time periods of settled order, during which powerful states laid down rules and established institutions. In this illuminating study, Kennedy tells a different story, in which contemporary international relations play out as a continuous struggle between technocratic elites around the world, in which nothing is ever settled and everything is negotiable.\"--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii  INTRODUCTION Could This Be 1648? 1  PART I Political Economy and Struggle 21  CHAPTER 1 Political Economy: World-Making Stories 23  CHAPTER 2 Struggle: Toward a Cartography of Engagement 54  PART II Expertise 87  CHAPTER 3 World-Making Ideas: Imagining a World to Govern and Resist 89  CHAPTER 4 Expertise: The Machinery of Global Reason 108  CHAPTER 5 Expertise in Action: Rule by Articulation 135  PART III Law 169  CHAPTER 6 Law and the Global Dynamics of Distribution 171  CHAPTER 7 International Legal Expertise: Innovation, Avoidance and Professional Faith 218  CHAPTER 8 Legal Expertise in War 256  EPILOGUE Let It Be So 277  Notes 281  Index 293","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403777155415,"sku":"9780691146782","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691146782.jpg?v=1730484511","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-of-struggle-9780691146782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}