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The liberal, "rules-based" order faces its greatest crisis since the end of the Cold War. Liberalism is in retreat around the world. Authoritarian regimes have become more numerous and increasingly repressive. International norms are unravelling. Yet there is little sign of a new, post-liberal order. Talk of a global power shift to the East is commonplace, but despite the growing influence of China, a "multipolar" world remains an abstraction. Instead, there is a growing void in global governance – a new world disorder.
In a broad and erudite narrative, Bobo Lo argues that there is no future in a return to dominant US leadership, great power competition or the post-Cold War chimera of a geopolitics-free world. The way forward lies in a more inclusive and flexible order, driven by a common purpose in meeting universal challenges, such as climate change, pandemic disease and global poverty.
Bobo Lo has written an ambitious and compelling book. It is a substantive and sophisticated analysis of the current geopolitical crises, and an elegant extended essay on the prospects for a new twenty-first-century global order. This is essential reading for policymakers focused on revitalizing internationalism and those considering new mechanisms for collective problem solving.
— Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Bobo Lo is an independent international relations analyst and a Non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia. He was formerly Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. His books include Russia and the New World Disorder, short-listed for the 2016 Pushkin House Prize.
Prologue: A parable of global disorder
Introduction
1. The rise and fall of the liberal order
2. A world disorder
3. Principles of a new internationalism
4. The United States, China, and the making of a twenty-first-century relationship
5. Powers in flux: adapting to change
6. Flexible multilateralism
7. Thinking beyond the state
Epilogue: Tomorrow's world