The New World Order Contrasting Theories [Hardcover]

A decade ago the term 'New World Order' was a commonly-used expression. Now - at the beginning of the twenty-first century - the contours of this order are less clear. How can this international order be described and interpreted and how can it be explained from contrasting theoretical viewpoints? Ten scholars in international politics, many of them experts in the field, offer penetrating contributions to provide a survey of the ongoing debate surrounding the new world order.Notes on Contributors Introduction: The New International Order; B.Hansen & B.Heurlin Intimations of Multipolarity; K.N.Waltz Disaggregated Order and Disorder; J.Rosenau Democracy and the Post-Cold War Era; R.L.Schweller Modernity, Postmodernity and the New World Order; M.C.Williams The Unipolar World Order and its Dynamics; B.Hansen After Pax Americana: Benign Power, Regional Integration, and the Sources of a Stable Multipolarity; C.A.Kupchan New World Order: The Virtual War and Virtual Peace; B.Heurlin Radical Theory and the International Disorder after the Cold War; M.Cox The Discourse on the EUs Role in the World; H.Larsen IndexBIRTHE HANSEN is Associate Professor in International Politics and a senior advisor to the Danish Institute of International Affairs.

BERTEL HEURLIN is Research Director of the Danish Institute of International Affairs and Jean Monnet Professor in European integration and security at the University of Copenhagen.