Competing Visions for International Order: Challenges for a Shared Direction in an Age of Global Contestation (1) (Routledge Series on Global Order Studies)

By: Ville Sinkkonen and Veera Laine and Matti Puranen

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 246 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040654590
Related ISBNs:: 9781032912714, 9781040550236, 9781003562306
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/15/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Veera Laine, Matti Puranen and Ville Sinkkonen
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ville Sinkkonen
Edited by:: Veera Laine
Edited by:: Matti Puranen