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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: debating worlds / Daniel Deudney and others -- Angloworld narratives: race as global governance / Duncan Bell -- The rise and fall of a global narrative: the Soviet challenge to the Western world / Michael Cox -- Pan-Islamic narratives of the global order, 1870-1980 / Cemil Aydin -- The enduring dilemma of Japan's uniqueness narratives / Kei Koga and Saori N. Katada -- Writing the right: radical conservative narratives of globalization / Jean-François Drolet and Michael C. Williams -- The Chinese global in the long postwar: narratives of war, civilization, and infrastructure since 1945 / Rana Mitter -- Narrating India in/and the world: colonial origins and postcolonial contestations / Itty Abraham -- Inequality, development, and global distributive justice / Jeremy Adelman -- The great schism: scientific-technological modernity versus Greenpeace civilization / Daniel Deudney -- Conclusion: many worlds and coming narrative dilemma / Karoline Postel-Vinay |
| Summary |
"In the late twentieth century, the narrative of universalization of Western liberal democratic modernity dominated the international scene. A few decades later, a new plurality of narratives has emerged, reflecting both a global redistribution of geopolitical power and deep political transformation within Western liberal societies. Each of the new, or most often reinvented, narratives combines stories of the past with understandings of the present and attractive visions of the future. They constitute “narratives of the global,” i.e. macro-stories that actors generate to make sense of their place in global integration and development and use to formulate a call for action or a specific agenda. Although competing narratives have always existed in world politics, today’s narrative plurality has become increasingly salient and problematic, challenging the possibility of global regulation of fundamental issues—such as health, energy, and climate change—in an era marked by planet-wide cascading interdependences. Understanding this challenge entails first to map the main narratives that are at play in the growing contestation of the present global order. It also implies a historically informed discussion of the key features of narratives of the global: the focus of this volume is to provide genealogies of the content of a set of narratives that have in common sweeping stories speaking to challenges and experiences of global modernity, and to illuminate the roles and impacts that agents acting on their basis have had in world politics"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 1, 2024) |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences)
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World politics.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Politics & government.
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Politics and Government.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Deudney, Daniel, editor.
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Ikenberry, G. John, editor.
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Postel-Vinay, Karoline, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780197679333 |
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0197679331 |
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9780197679340 |
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019767934X |
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0197679323 |
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9780197679326 |
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