Much has been written about the many economic benefits of
globalization and the triumph and spread of democratic liberalism
with the end of the Cold War, following the demise of the Soviet
Union. This work takes issue with such "wine and roses"
perspectives about the future of the Western democracies and their
faith-based views on the moral purity of a globalized marketplace.
It also questions many of the assumptions found in the status quo
reinforcing discipline of international political economy (IPE)-a
discipline that focuses on the formal and legitimate economies and
the facade they present that international relations and commerce
is still dominated and dictated solely by the old Westphalian state
centric system. Having highlighted these concerns, this book looks
at two major themes. The first theme focuses on the theoretical
perception that a "Dark Renaissance" is taking place globally-one
in which the Western liberal democracies and its citizens are ill
prepared to respond because it exists at the trans-civilization
level, bridging the modern to the post-modern world. The second
theme focuses on the actual process of state deconstruction that is
taking place. This process is leading to what may become the very
undoing of the democracies. Drawing together experts from a variety
of backgrounds, this work explores the increasing shift away from
formal based capitalism and evaluates through case studies how
different states are responding to the challenges they face. This
work will be of great interest to students and scholars of
international political economy.
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