Evaluating Global Orders

by Rengger, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9781107602366
• ISBN10: 110760236X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-15
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This volume examines conceptualisations of the hugely contested and contestable field of 'global order'. It looks at the way in which the 'orders' that make up 'the global order' are imagined and evaluated, as well as the manner in which this evaluation takes place. Essays in the book scrutinise varying ways of evaluating and assessing the global orders that characterise contemporary international relations, both as it is conventionally understood (and practised) and as it is variously and differently understood or imagined. These studies offer interesting and provocative 'evaluations' that can spark further reflections and articles in the volume range from reflection on particular aspects of the contemporary global order while others imagine a very different world order. All provoke discussion on how we might evaluate global orders and what it is we do when we think of a global order at all, in any context.

Table of Contents

Introduction: evaluating global orders

How UN ideas change history

From experience to thought: a reply to Louise Arbour

A responsibility to reality: a reply to Louise Arbour

The responsibility to protect - much ado about nothing?

Dangerous duties: power, paternalism and the 'responsibility to protect'

Global justice, national responsibility and transnational power

Non-state authority and global governance

The uncritical critique of 'liberal peace'

What is a (global) polity?

Cosmological sources of critical cosmopolitanism

Ancient cynicism: a case for salvage

Journeys beyond the West: world orders and a 7th-century, Buddhist monk

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