Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order

Critical Nodes in a Totality

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ID6431024
AuthorsCaio Gontijo (0000-0001-5846-472X, University of Wollongong, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume27
Issue3
Publication date2025-07-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/isr/viaf013
OpenAlexW4412172092
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited43

This article explores the interconnectedness of diverse critical nodes within global capitalism. The crisis of legitimacy facing the Liberal International Order, combined with the rise of new geopolitical tensions, is analyzed as one facet of a deeper global crisis of hegemony, from which new far-right political forces emerge at the national level. This perspective considers how these seemingly unrelated events constitute a single unitary totality. The analysis begins with the vantage point of “internal” relations, where the crisis of hegemony represents, on a global scale, a crisis in the process of passive revolution. Brazil is discussed as a relevant example, offering insights into the concrete prospects of a global “war of position.” The discussion then shifts to the vantage point of “external” relations, critiquing this perspective as the most explicit manifestation of the same systemic process—a crisis of the Liberal International Order and the geopolitics of rising illiberal states

Economics · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Relations and Foreign Policy · World Systems and Global Transformations

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