The Transition of Global Order: Legitimacy and Contestation [Hardcover]

This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted.1. Global Orders: Contestation and Transition 2. Order Transition, Systemic Legitimacy and Institutionalization 3. Order Transition in a Hybrid Environment 4. Order Transition, Common Culture and Exceptional Worldviews 5. Order Transition and Effectiveness 6. Renegotiating the Security-related Rules of Global Order 7. Renegotiating the Environmental Rules of Global Order 8. Renegotiating the Ideology-related Aspects of Global Order 9. Conclusion: The Politics of Sovereignty and the Failure of the Global Governance Concept

''In this book Maximilian Terhalle lays out a powerful argument that recent academic and policy concerns with global governance need to give way to a renewed focus on the power-political order amongst the major powers, above all the United States and China. The book draws on both English School scholarship and on classical realism. Its picture of the current order transition is stark and strident: the revisionist ambitions of both the US and China underpin the multiple deadlocks that plague contemporary global governance. Any restored order will have to depend on the possibilities of a new political bargain based both on changes in the distribution of material power and on the normative beliefs and self-conceptions of the major players. This is an important and timely contribution with which those interested in global order and global governance and the relationship between them will want to engage.'' Professor Andrew Hurrell, Oxford University

''Want to understand why a US-China 'G-2' will not materialize and serve as the basis of a reconstructed global order? In this theoretically and conceptually sophisticated study, Maximilian Terhalle decol3F