Geopolitics

Civilizational States and Liberal Empire

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Next week we will be releasing Telos 202, so be sure to pick up your copy today of Telos 201 (Winter 2022): Civilizational States and Liberal Empire at the lower current issue price at the Telos Press website.The present era is a transitional one in which different frameworks for establishing global order are attempting to displace one another. While the United States has struggled in its attempt since the end of the Cold War to establish the universal legitimacy of liberal democracy, the resistance to this model coming from China, Russia, and the Islamic world has led to a focus on the idea of competing civilizations as a new basis for sovereignty rooted in cultural values. Meanwhile, the defense of Ukraine is part of an attempt to maintain the nation-state as the basic underlying political unit in world politics, upsetting the aspirations of those who seek to forge larger political entities. In this special issue of Telos on Civilizational States and Liberal Empire, we attempt to better understand each of these conflicting perspectives on global order in order to evaluate their goals and prospects.
Read David Pan’s introduction to Telos 201 in the TELOSscope blog

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