The liberal international order and its discontents

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 509-521

  Ikenberry, G John ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hegemony; Liberal order; Modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953186780     PISSN: 03058298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305829810366477     Document Type: Article

References (18)

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3. Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Age (New York: Random House, 2008);
4. Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: Norton, 2009).
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9. J. Bradford Lelong and Stephen S. Cohen, The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (New York: Basic Books, 2010).
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11. Stewart Patrick, The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
12. G. John Ikenberry, 'Liberal Internationalism 3.0: America and the Dilemmas of Liberal World Order', Perspectives on Politics 7, no. 1 (2009): 71-87.
13. Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual and Stephen John Stedman, Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), xiii.
14. For a searching reflection on Western identity, see Timothy Garton Ash, FreeWorld: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (New York: Random House, 2004).
15. Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, 'The Unravelling of the Cold War Settlement', Survival 51, no. 6 (December 2009-January 2010): 39-62.
16. An international system is unipolar if it 'contains one state whose overall share of capabilities places it unambiguously in a class by itself compared to all other states'. G. John Ikenberry, Michael Mastanduno and William C. Wohlforth, 'Introduction: Unipolarity, State Behavior, and Systemic Consequences', World Politics 61, no. 1 (2009): 5.
17. See Daniel Deudney, Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
18. For a discussion of the logic and implications of a 'return to multipolarity',see Barry Posen, 'Emerging Multipolarity: Why Should We Care?' Current History, 108 (November 2009).