Chaos Reconsidered

The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics
What does the future hold for the international order? In Chaos Reconsidered, leading scholars assess the domestic and global effects of the Trump and Biden presidencies.
The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international order?

The essays in Chaos Reconsidered answer those questions. Leading scholars assess the domestic and global effects of the Trump and Biden presidencies. The historians put the Trump years and Biden’s victory in historical context. Regional specialists evaluate U.S. diplomacy in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Others foreground topics such as global right-wing populism, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality, and environmental degradation. International relations theorists reconsider the nature of international politics, pointing to deficiencies in traditional IR methods for explaining world events and Trump’s presidency in particular. Together, these experts provide a comprehensive analysis of the state of U.S. alliances and partnerships, the durability of the liberal international order, the standing and reputation of the United States as a global leader, the implications of China’s assertiveness and Russia’s aggression, and the prospects for the Biden administration and its successors.

Contributor: Robert Jervis (Edited by), Stacie Goddard (Edited by), Diane N. Labrosse (Edited by), Joshua Rovner (Edited by), Jeremy Adelman (Contributions by), Stephen Chaudoin (Contributions by), Susan Colbourn (Contributions by), Martin Conway (Contributions by), James Goldgeier (Contributions by), Richard H. Immerman (Contributions by), Robert Legvold (Contributions by), Anthony Dirk Moses (Contributions by), Sarah B. Snyder (Contributions by), Jennifer Spindel (Contributions by), James Stocker (Contributions by), John A. Thompson (Contributions by), Christy Thornton (Contributions by), Thomas W. Zeiler (Contributions by), F. Gregory Gause III (Contributions by), Randall Schweller (Contributions by), Dayna Barnes (Contributions by), Frank Ninkovich (Contributions by), William Hitchcock (Contributions by), Jonathan Monten (Contributions by), Elizabeth Economy (Contributions by), Matthew Evangelista (Contributions by), Lindsay Aqui (Contributions by), Audie Klotz (Contributions by), Joshua Busby (Contributions by), Jonathan DiCicco (Contributions by), William Glenn Gray (Contributions by), Samuel Zipp (Contributions by), Angela Stent (Contributions by), Michael N. Barnett (Contributions by), Deborah Avant (Contributions by), Emma Ashford (Contributions by), Ryan Irwin (Contributions by), Nicholas Mulder (Contributions by), Tanvi Madan (Contributions by), Kathryn Statler (Contributions by), Jason Ludwig (Contributions by), Rebecca Slayton (Contributions by), Nivi Manchada (Contributions by), Helen V. Milner (Contributions by), Dustin Tingley (Contributions by), George N. Georgarakis (Contributions by), Robert Y. Shapiro (Contributions by), Alessandro Brogi (Contributions by), Lawrence Freedman (Contributions by), Charles S. Maier (Contributions by)

Pages: 544

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