The Liberal World Order was a political project designed to keep together as harmoniously as possible state sovereignty-in its liberal-democratic version-and market economy-entailing free trade on the international level. Framed in this unique way, those three concepts-'international order,' 'sovereignty' and 'market economy'-have characterized the rise of political modernity. This book states that since the 1980s the Liberal World Order has been gradually replaced by a 'Neoliberal Global Order' and exposes the intellectual premises to revive and restore the balance between democracy and market-based economy, the fundamental premise upon which both liberal democracies and the LWO have been built.

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi is Professor of International Relations at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) and Director of ASERI (Graduate School of Economics and International Relations).

" Vittorio Parsi offers a sweeping and penetratingaccount of the rise and fall of the modern liberal international order. Elegant, erudite, and insightful, Parsi chronicles the stormy voyage of the Western democracies as they search for calmer seas and gentler winds."

G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University, USA

"Vittorio Parsi, one of Italy's leading scholars of international politics, has produced an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the postwar liberal order, what went wrong with it, and whether it might be restored.

Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College, USA

"One of Europe's most original thinkers offers a penetrating assessment of the Liberal World Order and its prospects.

Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, USA

"Parsi has written a book of tremendous importance. For anyone interested in a serious examination of the emerging world order, post-Trump and post-COVID, The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order is a must read".

Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University, Qatar

"Vittorio Parsi's is exactly the right book for anyone-student, teacher, news reporter, or policymaker-who wants to understand how our domestic and global politics and economics came to such a sorry state, and what we can do to build a better future. Joseph M. Grieco, Duke University, USA

Autorentext

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi is Professor of International Relations at Università Cattolica (Milan, Italy) and Director of ASERI (Graduate School of Economics and International Relations).

Zusammenfassung

The 'Liberal World Order' (LWO) is today in crisis. But what explains this crisis? Whereas its critics see it as the unmasking of Western hypocrisy, its longstanding proponents argue it is under threat by competing illiberal projects. This book takes a different stance: neither internal hypocrisy, nor external attacks explain the decline of the LWO a deviation from its original lane does. Emerged as a project aiming to harmonize state sovereignty and the market, through the promotion of liberal democracy domestically, and free trade and economic cooperation internationally, the LWO was hijacked in the 1980s: market forces overshadowed democratic forces, thus disfiguring the LWO into a Neoliberal Global Order. The book advocates for a revival of its original intellectual premises, that in the aftermath of World War II marked the zenith of political modernity.****

Inhalt

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Chapter 1

The Liberal Order and the Broken Pact Between Democracy and Market

PART I: OUT OF ROUTE

Chapter 2

Titanic, or the Unsinkable Order: Origins, Expansion and Betrayal of the Liberal World Order (1945-2000)****

Chapter 3

The Broken Promises that Hijacked the Liberal World Order: A Safer, Fairer, and Richer World. ****

PART II: THE FOUR SIDES OF THE ICEBERG

Chapter 4

The Decline of American Leadership and the Rise of Chinese and Russian Authoritarian Powers

Chapter 5

The Molecularization of the Threat: Jihadist Terrorism, Islamist Radicalization, and the Mediterranean Migration Tragedy

Chapter 6

The Drift of Trump's America in the Liberal World Order**: From Reluctant Ruler-Maker to Revisionist Power**

Chapter 7

The Occultation of the People: How Sovereignist Populism, Stateless Actors and Technocratic Oligarchies Have Taken on Boarding Democracies

PART III: A NORTHWEST PASSAGE

Chapter 8

Changes at the Helm After the Crash? Transitions Within the Liberal World Order and the Challenges for Europe

Conclusions

The Neoliberal Global Order and COVID-19: Which Way Ahead?

Index Of Names

**Index Of Contents**

**Bibliography**