The Age of Revisionism - (Ukrainian Voices) by Serhiy Korsunsky (Paperback)

About the Book

Political revisionism is reshaping global relations in an era marked by rising powers, nuclear threats, AI, migration, and climate change. Drawing on 30 years of diplomatic experience, the author revisits key concepts in international relations to provide a new understanding of today's complex and unstable world order.

Book Synopsis

Political revisionism is a world-wide and historical trend often defining the nature of international relations of a certain historical period. But today, it has become more important than ever before. The rise of China, aggressions of Russia, a growing number of states that have developed or are developing nuclear weapons, the inability of the UN Security Council to handle the global security agenda, the AI revolution, mass migration, and climate change combine into a picture that is difficult to comprehend. And yet no systematic analysis exists explaining what is to expect in the global order under such extreme conditions of war, instability, and insecurity. Annually, around four thousand books on international relations are being published world-wide. This book seeks to fill the gap between a reality that is hard to explain and the theory that is no longer sufficient.
Being a study of revisionism, it is itself a revisionist book. It revisits, discusses, and uncovers the novel meaning of many basic concepts used in theorizing about international relations as we know them. Some familiar concepts are merely getting outdated, others have proven to be wrong, while still others need to be revised to understand modern reality properly. The book draws lessons from the author's experience of practical diplomacy during 30 years as a senior Ukrainian diplomat with assignments in Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Ankara, and Tokyo.

About the Author

Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky, born in 1962, studied Physics and Mathematics at the Shevchenko University of Kyiv. He worked at the National Academy of Sciences and the State Committee on Science and Technologies of Ukraine. In 1994--2025, he served as a Ukrainian diplomat and, among others, Ambassador to Turkey and Japan as well as Head of Ukraine's Diplomatic Academy. He is also a Visiting Professor at Kobe Gakuin University in Japan and Honorary Professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University. Korsunsky is the author of more than 350 papers as well as 18 fiction and non-fiction books. He is a Distinguished Global Fellow at the Temple University Japan and Senior Adviser at the Nihon Cyber Defence Co.