Rethinking the 1990s

Liberal World Order-Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War

G. John Ikenberry, Peter Trubowitz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-781310-2 (ISBN)

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In the decade following the end of the Cold War, Western democracies stood victorious, brimming with optimism and grand designs. Today, the 1990s look less like a great triumph for liberal democracy and Western modernity than a decade in which post-Cold War excitement and anticipation obscured a slowly gathering global storm. At a time of intensifying geopolitical rivalry, economic nationalism, and ideological extremism, Rethinking the 1990s brings together a group of leading political scientists and historians who look back on that era of world-historical change to identify choices and pathways that have brought the world to this unsettled moment. Authors explore whether the United States and other countries could have made different choices in the 1990s to place the world order then envisioned by Western policymakers on a firmer foundation.

Written in a highly engaging style, these wide-ranging essays offer new insight into the strategic choices, political trade-offs, and missed opportunities of that historic decade as well as much-needed perspective on the international pressures and domestic cross-pressures fracturing the liberal order today.

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2018-2019, Ikenberry was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2013-2014, he was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ikenberry is the author of eight books, most recently, A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism in the Making of Modern World Order, and Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order. Peter Trubowitz is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan United States Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His research focuses on international security, domestic politics and foreign policy, and party politics. His published work includes Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture, with Brian Burgoon, Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft, and Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy, which won the annual J. David Greenstone Prize for best book on politics and history.

List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
1: G. John Ikenberry;Peter Trubowitz: Making Sense of the 1990s: Choices, Pathways, and Missed Opportunities
Part I: BRAVE NEW WORLD: LIBERAL CONSOLIDATION OR TRANSFORMATION?
2: How Recursive Is Global Governance? Revisiting the Ordering Choices of the Nineties
3: Jonathan Kirshner: That Faustian Decade: The Financialization of the American Economy
4: Michael Mastanduno: When Hegemony Mostly Worked: U.S. Relations with Europe and Japan during the 1990s
5: Jennifer M. Welsh: Responsible Sovereignty and Individual Accountability: Liberal Internationalist Aspirations from the 1990s
Part II: Taking Stock: Western Successes and Failures
6: Populism and the Durability of the Liberal Order in Eastern Europe: EU and NATO Enlargement Reconsidered
7: Michael Cox: Who Lost Russia? The 1990s Revisited
8: Miles Kahler: Reconsidering Engagement with China: Authoritarian Power and International Order
9: Harold James: The Return of/to Europe and the New Politics of Globalism
Part III: False Dawn: Western Overreach or Underreach?
10: Ever Deeper and Wider? The Globalization of the Liberal International Order and the End of the Cold War
11: Charles A. Kupchan: The Liberal Order Reconsidered: Europe, the United States, and the Missteps of the 1990s
12: Ayse Zarakol: Mistakes Were Made: Revisiting the 1990s from the EU's Immediate Neighborhood
13: Amrita Narlikar: On Breakthroughs, Deadlocks, and Rose-Gardens Lost in Between: The Failed Promise of North-South Cooperation
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-781310-0 / 0197813100
ISBN-13	978-0-19-781310-2 / 9780197813102
Zustand	Neuware