商品簡介
The over two dozen essays in this collection set themselves against two hegemonic theses of the post-soviet era of globalization: Fukuyama's "end of history" and Huntington's "clash of civilizations." The global protests and toppled regimes of 2011 show that democracy is not an essentially Western achievement or propensity. The contributions evaluate the latent imperialism in the way that international relations are described and negotiated. Organized into four sections, the essays re-evaluate hegemonic discourses and histories, and make the case for the 'dignity of difference' between universalism and particularism, while also showing the limitations of this approach in the asymmetrical power relations that describe global political economy. The final section points toward an alternative discourse that that makes sense of these global tensions. The contributors are professors, writers, NGO employees, former employees of the UN from around the world. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Mojtaba Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. W. Andy Knight is Director of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at The University of the West Indies and Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as Governor of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 2007 to 2012, co-edited Global Governance journal from 2000 to 2005 and was Vice Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Knight has written and edited several books, book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of multilateralism, global governance and peace, and United Nations reform. His recent books include: The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (with Frazer Egerton) -Routledge 2012 and Global Politics (with Tom Keating) - Oxford University Press 2010. Professor Knight is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
