Contested World Orders

Books

Fink, Leon. (2022) Undoing the Liberal World Order. Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II. New York: Columbia UP.

Getachew, Adom. (2019) World-Making after Empire. The Ris eand Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton UP.

Jung, Dietrich. and Stephan Stetter, eds. (2019) Modern Subjectivities in World Society. Global Structures and Local Practices. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Webb, Adam K. (2025) The World’s Constitution. Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order. New York: Routledge.

Book chapters

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline A. (2024) Diplomatic Strategies of Rising Nations in the Global South. The Search for Leadership and Influence. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Introduction: The Global South and the Multipolar Moment, pp.1-31.

Bridoux, Jeff. (2024) Democratic Peace? In: The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory, Vol. II, Williams, H., D. Boucher, P. Such, D. Reidy, A. Koutsoukis, eds. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.309-328.

Buzan, Barry. (2023) ‘Deep Pluralism and the Emerging Structure of Global Society’, in Zhang, Feng (ed) Pluralism and World Order: Theoretical Perspectives and Policy Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-52. OA: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-9872-0

Nesia, Vasuki. (2025) International Conflict Feminism: Theory, Practice, Challenges. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Ch 7: Feminist Internationalism, pp.163-180.

Pfeiffer, Hanna. (2024). Islamists and the Global Order. Between Resistance and Recognition. Edinburgh UP. Introduction, Ch 1 & 2: pp.1-100.

Articles

Acharya, Amitav. (2017) After liberal hegemony: the advent of a multiplex world order, Ethics & International Affairs 31(3): 271–85, https://doi.org/10.1017/S089267941700020X

Bargues, Pol, Jonathan Joseph and Ana E. Juncos (2023) Rescuing the liberal international order: crisis, resilience and EU security policy. International Affairs 99: 6, 2281–2299; doi: 10.1093/ia/iiad222

Börzel, Tanja A. & Zürn, Michael. (2021) Contestations of the Liberal International Order: From Liberal Multilateralism to Postnational Liberalism. International Organization, 75(2): 282–305. doi:10.1017/S0020818320000570

Dugard, John. (2023) ‘The choice before us: International law or a ‘rules-based international order’?’ Leiden Journal of International Law 36(2): 223-232. doi:10.1017/S0922156523000043

Ikenberry, G. John. (2024) Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape global order, International Affairs, 100(1): 121–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad284

Jung, Dietrich. (2001) The Political Sociology of World Society. European Journal of International Relations, 7 (4), 443-474.

Lake, David A., Lisa L. Martin, & Thomas Risse. (2021) Challenges to the Liberal Order: Reflections on International Organization. International Organization, 75(2): 225–257. (special issue introduction). Doi:10.1017/S0020818320000636

Loh, Dylan M. H., Lucas de Oliveira Paes & Ayşe Zarakol (2025) Non-Western Visions of International Order. Annual Review of Political Science, 29: 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-032824-084913

Mearsheimer, John J. (2019) Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order. International Security 43(4): 7–50. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00342

Pugh, Michael. (2004) Peacekeeping and Critical Theory. International Peacekeeping, Vol.11, No.1, pp.39–58. DOI:10.1080/1353331042000228445

Richmond, Oliver. P., and Sandra Pogodda. (2025) Peacemaking and the Maintenance of International Order: Alignment under Hegemony versus Multipolar Misalignment. Global Studies Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae094

Stubb, Alexander. (2026) The West’s Last Chance. How to Build a New Global Order Before It’s Too Late. Foreign Affairs January/February 2026. Vol. 115(1): 104-116 (available here.)

Other

Schierenbeck, Isabell & Fredrik Söderbaum (2026) “The Rise of the Red Sea Region in a Multiplex World”, manuscript for CRIA (available as pdf).

Trump, Donald J. (2025) National Security Strategy of the United States of America November 2025, pp. 1-29. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf