Rethinking the 1990s Liberal World Order-Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War
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Biografisk notat
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2018-2019, Ikenberry was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2013-2014, he was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ikenberry is the author of eight books, most recently, A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism in the Making of Modern World Order, and Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order. Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan United States Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research focuses on international security, domestic politics and foreign policy, and party politics. His published work includes Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture, with Brian Burgoon, Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft, and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy, which won the annual J. David Greenstone Prize for best book on politics and history.As we strive to understand the profound upheaval in the international order, it makes sense to go back to the 1990s, a time when liberalism seemed triumphant and ask if its decline was inevitable. To tackle this question, Ikenberry and Trubowitz have assembled a dream team of political scientists and historians, who walk us through topics ranging from economic and financial hegemony to NATO's march eastward, to the emergence of a global human rights regime. In the end, the rich scholarship in this book provides us with no easy answer and instead urges us to unpack our long-standing assumptions about the source of the order's expansion and the origins of its current challenges. It is a critical read at this uncertain moment.
Stacie E. Goddard, Wellesley College, Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science, Associate Provost, Wellesley in the World
Coming off the success of the Cold War, the 1990s were a breakthrough moment for the American international liberal project. Yet, in retrospect, the seeds of backlash and opposition both inside the West and beyond were being sown. This masterful collaborative volume brings leading IR thinkers together to assess the legacies, positive and negative alike, of this fateful decade.
Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University
Rethinking the 1990s is the best book available on how the world tried to get to grips with the sudden end of the Cold War. If the 1990s is the crucial decade for understanding our times, this book provides an excellent way of grasping what its key issues actually were.
O. A. Westad, Yale University, author of The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Lessons from History