GOVT 6817

Rethinking the Liberal International Order

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It is often argued these days that the Liberal International Order is facing serious challenges – or even a crisis – which may likely give rise to a different world order where the US and Western Europe would no longer be the main arbiters of international rules and norms. This new world order, we are told, may be less rules-based, less free, less liberal, and less democratic. This course revisits the history of the Liberal International Order and its current state, while questioning the hegemonic discourses and the values it claims. The course adopts critique as a frame to question knowledge making and hegemonic discourses in International Relations by focusing on the Liberal International Order, and the anxiety of its potential demise.

When Offered Spring.

Course Subfield (IR)

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