Libya and the global enduring disorder

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ID9924633
AuthorsAaron C Mckeil (0000-0003-1649-0019, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Aaron McKeil (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year2022
Volume98
Issue2
Pages798-799
Publication date2022-03-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iiac040
OpenAlexW4220759217
LanguageEN
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Why are international politics seemingly marked by increasing disorder today? Is this condition novel, and will it persist, improve or worsen? Jason Pack argues that the Libyan intervention and its aftermath offer an important case-study for understanding how contemporary international politics are defined by a novel form of global disorder that is deliberate and persistent. Pack's main explanatory discussion is found in the introduction and preface. He leans heavily on the idea of the stabilizing effects of an imposed hegemonic order, and the destabilization that results from its absence. He claims that ‘human history is characterized by periods of disorder punctuated by those of occasional hegemonic order’ (p. 11), although he does not clearly define the concept of ‘disorder’, global or otherwise, and also does not analytically distinguish its different manifestations and sources. On these somewhat ambiguous premises, Pack suggests that global disorder will endure because US decline is not

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