Contending Visions of Global Order: Worldmaking after U.S. Hegemony

Books:

Arrighi, Giovanni and Beverly Silver (1999) “Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System”, University of Minnesota Press

Daoku Li, David (2024) China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict, W.W. Norton

Desai, Rhadika (2013) “Geopolitical Economy: After U.S. Hegemony, Globalization and Empire” Pluto Press

Diesen, Glenn (2024) “The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order” Clarity Press

Mearsheimer, John (2019) The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, Yale UP

Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff (2021) “Splitting Europe: The EU, Russia and the West” Rowman & Littlefield. Chapters. 6-9

Articles and Book Chapters:

de Graaff, Nanna. et al. 2020. ”China’s rise in a liberal world order in transition”, Review of International Political Economy 27(2):191-207.

de Graaff, Nanna (2020) “Beyond Dualisms: Understanding China’s Capitalism”, Socio-Economic Review, 18, 3: 881-892

Ekholm-Friedman, Kajsa and. Jonathan Friedman (2022) “Getting Ready for the Dark Ages” in Loperfido, Giacomo (ed) Extremism, Society and the State, Berghahn Books

Ikenberry, G. John (2018). ‘Why the Liberal World Order Will Survive.’ Ethics & International Affairs, 32(1), 17-29

Norrlöf, Carla (2021) “The Ibn Khaldun trap and Great Power Rivalry with China” Washington Quarterly, Spring 2021): 7-28

Richardson, Paul (2021) “Geopolitical encounters and entanglements along the Belt and Road Initiative, Geography Compass, July 2021.

Sakwa, Richard (2020) Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West?, International Politics

Sakwa, Richard (2020) “The new era of confrontation: Russia and the World, 2020 IMEMO Forecasts” New Perspectives, SAGE

Sakwa, Richard (2019) “BRICS and Sovereign Internationalism”, Strategic Analysis, Taylor & Francis: pp. 456-468

Tsygankov, Andrei (2019) “The Global Economic Reshuffle: USA, China, and Russia” Valdai Club

Tsygankov Andrei (2019) “From Global Order to Global Transition: Russia and the Future of International Relations” Russia in Global Affairs

Tsygankov, Andrei (2022) “Russia, Eurasia and the meaning of Crimea”, Europe-Asia Studies, Nov, 2022

Additional articles may be suggested as recommended reading

In addition, a few online blog texts, political speeches, official texts from government webpages, and summit announcements (for example from the BRICS) will be analyzed in the course.