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Order Wars and Floating Balance - How the Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Order Wars and Floating Balance - How the Rising Powers Are Reshaping Our Worldview in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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A sense of order has irreversibly retreated at the turn of the
twenty-first century with the rise of such ancient civilizations as
China and India and the militant resurgence of Islamic groups. The
United States and like-minded states want to maintain the
once-dominant international and global order buttressed by a set of
mainly Western value systems and institutions. Nevertheless,
challengers have sought to redraw the international and global
order according to their own ideas and preferences, while
selectively accommodating and taking advantage of the established
order. Because of this, the entire world is teetering on the brink
of an order war. This book is a synthesis of two separate bodies of
thoughts, from Western and East Asian ideas and philosophies
respectively. The authors deploy the major ideas of key Western and
East Asian thinkers to shed a new light on their usefulness in
understanding the transition of global order. They locate new ideas
to overcome the contradictions of the late modern world and provide
some ideational building blocks of a new global order. The new
concepts proposed are: recognition between the great civilizations;
a harmony and floating balance between and within
contrasts-individual versus community, freedom versus equality-;and
mediation between friends and foes. As the former Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin put it, "you don't need to make peace with
your friends, you have to make peace with your foes." The values of
the West as well as that of the East cannot survive in a globalized
world by taking them as absolute, but only by balancing them to
those of the other great civilizations of the world.
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