This book evaluates the current state of world (dis)order at a time of growing populism, nationalism and pandemic panic. It distils the implications of the 'civilisational state' for world order. The retreat of US leadership is mirrored by the decline of both the material and normative liberal...

There is now emerging across the world a group of scholars whose work crosses the conventional disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences. Their model combines the breadth of vision of the classical political economy with analytical advances of modern social science. This innovative two...

Growing resistance to globalization that characterized the end of the twentieth century and, indeed the beginning of this one, is the essential context within which any analysis of the utility of ASEM should be judged. In this regard, the Asian financial crisis represented a watershed for ASEM...