On world order and opportunities not to be wasted
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610065 |
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| Authors | Chris Royer (0000-0002-9441-8824, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-317 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230.2020.1762153 |
| OpenAlex | W3022689338 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This essay engages critically with Adrian Pabst’s ‘Liberal World Order and Its Critics’, Christian Reus-Smit’s ‘On Cultural Diversity’, and Hal Brands’ and Charles Edel’s ‘The Lessons of Tragedy’. What holds these three (very different) books together is that they revolve around the theme of ‘the crisis of liberal world order’. In this essay, I do not wish to dispute the claim that the liberal world order is in crisis – indeed, I accept this common starting-off point of the four authors as a fact. What distinguishes my take on the ‘crisis of liberal world’ order from the books under review, however, is that I develop an alternative angle on the very idea of ‘crisis’: By understanding crisis as an incitement to judgement, deliberation and, ultimately, political action, I excavate the constructive potential of crisis; and, through the critical engagement with the three books under review, I seek to lay bare the intimate bond that connects ‘crisis’, ‘human diversity’, and ‘tragedy’, and to revive the constructive potential of these themes as ‘opportunities not to be wasted’
Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions
| Highly cited | No |
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