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A Liberal World Order in Crisis - by Georg Sørensen (Hardcover)

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  • The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized.
  • About the Author: Georg Sorensen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.
  • 232 Pages
  • Political Science, Political Ideologies

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In the last 20 years liberal democracies have not been able to create an effective and legitimate liberal world order. In A Liberal World Order in Crisis, Georg Sorensen suggests that this is connected to major tensions between two strains of liberalism.



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The collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twentieth century changed political liberalism from a regional system with aspirations of universality to global ideological dominance as the basic vision of how international life should be organized. Yet in the last two decades liberal democracies have not been able to create an effective and legitimate liberal world order. In A Liberal World Order in Crisis, Georg Sorensen suggests that this is connected to major tensions between two strains of liberalism: a "liberalism of imposition" affirms the universal validity of liberal values and is ready to use any means to secure the worldwide expansion of liberal principles. A "liberalism of restraint" emphasizes nonintervention, moderation, and respect for others.

This book is the first comprehensive discussion of how tensions in liberalism create problems for the establishment of a liberal world order. The book is also the first skeptical liberal statement to appear since the era of liberal optimism--based in anticipation of the end of history--in the 1990s. Sorensen identifies major competing analyses of world order and explains why their focus on balance-of-power competition, civilizational conflict, international terrorism, and fragile states is insufficient.



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George Sorensen is a frienc of liberalism and of liberals, but a moderate, critical, and often sceptical one.... [His] volume offers perhaps the most lucid view of international order, as well as of the crisis of liberal internationalism, since Stanley Hoffmann's article on 'The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism' in Foreign Policy (1995) and since Andrew Hurrell's On Global Order (2006), which centred on the tension between solidarism and pluralism and has much in common with Sorensen's own theme.

--Pierre Hassner "Survival"



About the Author



Georg Sorensen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. He is the author of several books, including Democracy and Democratization: Processes and Prospects in a Changing World and Changes in Statehood: The Transformation of International Relations.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Political Ideologies
Genre: Political Science
Number of Pages: 232
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: Conservatism & Liberalism
Format: Hardcover
Author: Georg Sørensen
Language: English
Street Date: November 15, 2011
TCIN: 94001155
UPC: 9780801450228
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-4991
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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