Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order

The global distribution of power has shifted and the preeminence of the West is receding as new directions for world order emerge. In Debating Worlds, Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay have gathered a group of eminent scholars in the field to analyze the various ways in which the West's dominant narrative has waned and a new plurality of narratives has emerged. Collectively, the contributors map out these narratives, focusing primarily on their key features, origins, and implications for world order. Covering the most influential narratives currently shaping world politics, Debating Worlds is an essential volume for all scholars of international relations.

Daniel Deudney is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of several books, including Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity and Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village.

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He is the author of eight books, including A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order and Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order.

Karoline Postel-Vinay is Director of Research at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris. She is a specialist on the geopolitics of Japan and East Asia, and her books include The G20: A New Geopolitical Order and L'Occident et sa bonne parole: nos représentations du monde, de l'Europe coloniale à l'Amérique hégémonique.