After Liberalism? The Future of Liberalism in International Relations

This edited collection addresses the state of liberalism in light of recent crises and shifts within the international system. As economic growth stagnates in the West, power is shifting away from liberalism's heartlands. Liberalism is under attack, both as explanatory theory and as normative prescription. Will liberalism be able to surmount the theoretical and real-world challenges it faces today?
 
In this volume, leading 21st-century thinkers provide their perspectives on the continuing role of the liberal paradigm, both as a theoretical approach to international relations, and as an ordering principle of international politics. The contributors examine liberalism's ability to function in view of its internal contradictions and the increasing complexity of a globalized world; assessing its future in view of the power shifts and political transformations in the international system and providing novel ways of thinking about liberalism's role, both in its practical workings and intellectual implications.
 
The range of international contributors to this volume include Jonathan Caverley, Philip G. Cerny, Michael Cox, Louise Fawcett, G. John Ikenberry, Beate Jahn, Charles A. Kupchan, Margot Light, Cornelia Navari, Nicholas Rengger, Christian Reus-Smit, Nabarun Roy, Frank Schimmelfennig, Brian C. Schmidt, Peter Trubowitz and Ren Xiao.

Rebekka Friedman currently teaches in the Foreign Service Programme at the University of Oxford, UK. She was an editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and completed her completed her PhD at the Department of International Relations, LSE, UK. Her research focuses on conflict transformation, democratization, and international institutions and she is currently working on a research project evaluating transitional justice in Sierra Leone.
 
Kevork Oskanian is currently a Lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK. A former editor of the Millennium: Journal of International Studies, he completed his PhD at the Department of International Relations, LSE, UK. His research interests include the politics of the Former Soviet Union, constructivism, the English School, regionalism, and state incoherence and he is currently engaged in a research project mapping the regional variations of the institutions of International Society.
 
Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a Lecturer in the Department of European and International Studies at King's College London, UK, as well as an Associate at the Lau China Institute and LSE IDEAS. He is a former editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and his recent publications have appeared in Asia Europe Journal, Journal of European Integration and East Asia. He is currently completing a book on North Korea's policy towards the United States.

Introduction; Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian and Ramon Pacheco Pardo
PART I: LIBERALISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
1. Liberalism - In Theory and History; Beate Jahn
2. Liberalism, Democracy and International Law - An English School Approach; Cornelia Navari
3. Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? Dystopic Liberalism and the International Order; Nicholas Rengger
4. Rising Powers: A Realist Analysis; Brian C. Schmidt and Nabarun Roy
PART II: LIBERALISM AND AMERICAN HEGEMONY
5. The Liberal International Order and its Discontents; G. John Ikenberry
6. Power and the Liberal Order; Michael Cox
7. American Statecraft in an Era of Domestic Polarisation; Charles A. Kupchan and Peter L. Trubowitz 8. Neoconservatism, Neoclassical Realism, and the Narcissism of Small Differences; Jonathan D. Caverley
9. The Liberal International Order Reconsidered; Christian Reus-Smit
PART III: THE DIFFUSION OF LIBERALISM
10. The Paradox of Liberalism in a Globalising World; Philip G. Cerny
11. Debating China's Rise in China; Ren Xiao
12. The Export of Liberalism to Russia; Margot Light
13. Liberal theory and European Integration; Frank Schimmelfennig
14. Beyond Liberalism? Reflections from the Middle East; Louise Fawcett
Conclusion; Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian and Ramon Pacheco Pardo