Competing Visions for International Order

Challenges for a Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation
Herausgeber: Puranen, Matti; Sinkkonen, Ville; Laine, Veera

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the international ordering visions of key global and regional powers in the international system from 2014 onwards. Using a fourfold analytical framework based on the distributional, normative, institutional, and temporal dimensions of the visions propagated by the relevant political elites in the states/actors in question, the book addresses the ultimate question in international relations for the coming decades: To what extent can the visions pushed forward by the leading powers of the world be reconciled to arrive at a shared direction for international order writ large? The book's analysis also offers normative prescriptions on how to avoid a tragic race to the bottom - a fragmented world of competing orders where states are unable to address shared global crises and challenges such as pandemics, cross-border crime, climate tragedies, and armed conflict. With this, it concludes by recognising the importance of agency as well as political imagination in navigating the crisis-ridden ordering moment of the international system. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in global order studies and governance, geopolitics, regional studies, foreign policy analysis as well as more broadly to international relations and security, political history, human geography, and policymakers. Chapter 3 and Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032912714
• ISBN-10: 1032912715
• Artikelnr.: 74777763

Autorenporträt

Ville Sinkkonen is a leading researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland. Veera Laine is a senior researcher at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Matti Puranen is an associate professor at the Finnish National Defence University, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Envisioning International Order in an Age of Global
Contestation Part 1: The Superpower Contenders 2. The United States and
Lost Visions of International Order in a World of Great-Power Competition
3. Chinese Vision for a Durable Security Order in an Era of Great Power
Competition: The Global Security Initiative Part 2: Status Quo Powers 4.
The EU's Evolving Vision for the International Order: From Liberal Beacon
to Competitive Pole 5. France's Ordering Visions: Independence, History,
and Countering the Logic of Blocs 6. Germany's Vision for International
Order in the Era of Zeitenwende: No More Kantian Dreams? 7. The United
Kingdom's Post-Brexit Ordering Vision 8. The Japanese Vision of World Order
Part 3: Revisionists and Post-Westernisers 9. India as a Pivotal State
Shaping a Post-Western World: From Periphery to Centre 10. Brazilian
Competing Ordering Visions: Destined to Become a Great Power? 11. South
Africa's Vision of "A Better Africa and World" 12. The Ordering Vision of
Turkey's AKP Regime: A Regional Centre State? 13. Saudi Arabia's Balancing
Act in the Shifting Sands of the Middle East 14. A Critical View of Iran's
Vision to Global Order 15. Russia's Vision of a Multipolar World and the
Sovereign "State-Civilisation" 16. Conclusions: Comparing Visions,
Fathoming Orders