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A liberal world order in crisis : choosing between imposition and restraint / Georg Sørensen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801463297
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JC574 .L534 2011
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Contents:
Tensions in liberalism : universal values for all or a pluralist world? -- Values and liberal world order -- A different security dilemma : liberals facing weak and failed states -- Free markets for all : the difficulties of maintaining a stable liberal world economy -- Institutions and liberal world order -- Conclusion : prospects for liberal world order.
Subject: The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades liberal democracies have not been able to create an effective and legitimate liberal world order. In A Liberal World Order in Crisis, Georg Sorensen suggests that this is connected to major tensions between two strains of liberalism: a "liberalism of imposition" affirms the universal validity of liberal values and is ready to use any means to secure the worldwide expansion of liberal principles. A "liberalism of restraint" emphasizes nonintervention, moderation, and respect for others. This book is the first comprehensive discussion of how tensions in liberalism create problems for the establishment of a liberal world order. The book is also the first skeptical liberal statement to appear since the era of liberal optimism-based in anticipation of the end of history-in the 1990s. Sorensen identifies major competing analyses of world order and explains why their focus on balance-of-power competition, civilizational conflict, international terrorism, and fragile states is insufficient.
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The debate on world order -- Tensions in liberalism : universal values for all or a pluralist world? -- Values and liberal world order -- A different security dilemma : liberals facing weak and failed states -- Free markets for all : the difficulties of maintaining a stable liberal world economy -- Institutions and liberal world order -- Conclusion : prospects for liberal world order.

The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades liberal democracies have not been able to create an effective and legitimate liberal world order. In A Liberal World Order in Crisis, Georg Sorensen suggests that this is connected to major tensions between two strains of liberalism: a "liberalism of imposition" affirms the universal validity of liberal values and is ready to use any means to secure the worldwide expansion of liberal principles. A "liberalism of restraint" emphasizes nonintervention, moderation, and respect for others. This book is the first comprehensive discussion of how tensions in liberalism create problems for the establishment of a liberal world order. The book is also the first skeptical liberal statement to appear since the era of liberal optimism-based in anticipation of the end of history-in the 1990s. Sorensen identifies major competing analyses of world order and explains why their focus on balance-of-power competition, civilizational conflict, international terrorism, and fragile states is insufficient.

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