Each world order in your book, ends thanks at least in part to what you call a structural crisis. underlying all these general crises were structural pressures. The things i r worries most about as being corrosive to order are not power rivalries but rather al dynamics such as climate change and demographic decline. Soke in ors im ian our modern international order. And we could say we're in the post colld war orderr, i know, sometimes called the liberal international where in the next whatever, it doesn't have a name, but that's still connected to the cold war order.
Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early Ming Dynasty through the Ottomans and Mughals built dominant world orders and, ultimately, shaped the rise of Europe—and how that all might shape how we think about the crisis in the world order today.
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