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9 - The Post-Western World Order: Deep Pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2019

Amitav Acharya
Affiliation:
American University, Washington DC
Barry Buzan
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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This chapter looks at the gathering sense of both crisis and transformation around the current world order. Capitalism, despite having won the Cold War, seems to be in considerable trouble. Brexit and Trump have removed the Anglosphere from world leadership. A rising China poses many unknowns about what kind of world order it favours. Wealth, power and cultural authority are diffusing to multiple centres, some states, some not. In this context, we look at seven key structural features of GIS and propose and defend assumptions about how they will unfold in the coming decades. We then set out some ideas about the possible material shape and normative character of GIS in a context of deep pluralism.
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The Making of Global International Relations
Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary
, pp. 261 - 284
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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