Evaluating Global Orders

This volume examines conceptualisations of the field of 'global order' and the way in which this is imagined and evaluated.

Nicholas Rengger (Edited by)

9781107602366, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

252 pages
24.8 x 17 x 0.9 cm, 0.39 kg

This volume examines conceptualisations of the hugely contested and contestable field of 'global order'. It looks at the way in which the 'orders' that make up 'the global order' are imagined and evaluated, as well as the manner in which this evaluation takes place. Essays in the book scrutinise varying ways of evaluating and assessing the global orders that characterise contemporary international relations, both as it is conventionally understood (and practised) and as it is variously and differently understood or imagined. These studies offer interesting and provocative 'evaluations' that can spark further reflections and articles in the volume range from reflection on particular aspects of the contemporary global order while others imagine a very different world order. All provoke discussion on how we might evaluate global orders and what it is we do when we think of a global order at all, in any context.

Introduction: evaluating global orders Nicholas Rengger
1. How UN ideas change history Thomas G. Weiss
2. From experience to thought: a reply to Louise Arbour William Bain
3. A responsibility to reality: a reply to Louise Arbour Stephanie Carvin
4. The responsibility to protect – much ado about nothing? Theresa Reinold
5. Dangerous duties: power, paternalism and the 'responsibility to protect' Philip Cunliffe
6. Global justice, national responsibility and transnational power David Owen
7. Non-state authority and global governance Dimitrios Katsikas
8. The uncritical critique of 'liberal peace' David Chandler
9. What is a (global) polity? Olaf Corry
10. Cosmological sources of critical cosmopolitanism Heikki Patomäki
11. Ancient cynicism: a case for salvage Piers Revell
12. Journeys beyond the West: world orders and a 7th-century, Buddhist monk Lily Ling.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Political science & theory [JPA], Politics & government [JP]