Babic, M Forging new identities? The erosion of the social base of the liberal international order Online Medium.com 2020. @online{Babic2020c,
title = {Forging new identities? The erosion of the social base of the liberal international order},
author = {M Babic},
url = {https://medium.com/international-affairs-blog/forging-new-identities-the-erosion-of-the-social-base-of-the-liberal-international-order-dd47b46ad69c},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-05-29},
organization = {Medium.com},
abstract = {While the current global public health crisis still rages on in many parts of the world, we can already observe the beginning of social and economic crises in COVID-19’s aftermath. Staggering US unemployment numbers and a looming European recession threatening to break up the Eurozone are just two of the main economic headlines of recent days. Many of these developments are not entirely new, but are embedded in a more comprehensive crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) — crumbling US leadership, a global populist re-orientation towards the nation state, decreasing international cooperation and economic exchange are just some of those phenomena. The current crisis acts as an accelerant to existing trends which I describe in a recent article for International Affairs. In it, I draw on Gramsci to develop a three-dimensional analytical framework which can help to make sense of the ongoing crisis of world order.},
keywords = {COVID-19, Gramsci, liberal international order, LIO},
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While the current global public health crisis still rages on in many parts of the world, we can already observe the beginning of social and economic crises in COVID-19’s aftermath. Staggering US unemployment numbers and a looming European recession threatening to break up the Eurozone are just two of the main economic headlines of recent days. Many of these developments are not entirely new, but are embedded in a more comprehensive crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) — crumbling US leadership, a global populist re-orientation towards the nation state, decreasing international cooperation and economic exchange are just some of those phenomena. The current crisis acts as an accelerant to existing trends which I describe in a recent article for International Affairs. In it, I draw on Gramsci to develop a three-dimensional analytical framework which can help to make sense of the ongoing crisis of world order. |
Babic, M The liberal international order is in crisis - here is how we can analyze it Online Progress in Political Economy (PPE) 2020. @online{Babic2020b,
title = {The liberal international order is in crisis - here is how we can analyze it},
author = {M Babic},
url = {http://ppesydney.net/the-liberal-international-order-is-in-crisis-here-is-how-we-can-analyse-it/},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-03-10},
organization = {Progress in Political Economy (PPE)},
abstract = {The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) might appear as an abstract process, but we experience its consequences on a daily basis. I delineate an analytical framework and offer a range of empirical entry points drawing on a lot of already existing fantastic research on different crisis aspects.},
keywords = {crisis, Gramsci, international relations, liberal international order},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}
The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) might appear as an abstract process, but we experience its consequences on a daily basis. I delineate an analytical framework and offer a range of empirical entry points drawing on a lot of already existing fantastic research on different crisis aspects. |
Babic, M Let’s talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the Liberal World Order Journal Article In: International Affairs, vol. 96, no. 3, pp. 767-786, 2020. @article{Babic2019,
title = {Let’s talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the Liberal World Order},
author = {M Babic},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/ia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ia/iiz254/5712430},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz254},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-21},
journal = {International Affairs},
volume = {96},
number = {3},
pages = {767-786},
abstract = {The liberal international order (LIO) is in crisis. Numerous publications, debates and events have made it time and again clear that we are in the midst of a grand transformation of world order. While most contributions focus either on what is slowly dying (the LIO) or what might come next (China, multipolarity, chaos?), there is less analytical engagement with what lies in between those two phases of world order. Under the assumption that this period could last years or even decades, a set of analytical tools to understand this interregnum is urgently needed. This paper proposes an analytical framework that builds on Gramscian crisis concepts that will help understanding the current crisis of the LIO in a more systematic way. It adds to a gap in the literature on changing world order by elaborating three Gramsci-inspired crisis characteristics - processuality, organicity and morbidity -
that sketch the current crisis landscape in a systematic way. Building on this framework, the paper suggests different empirical entry points to the study of the crisis of the LIO and calls for a research agenda that takes this crisis seriously as a distinct period of changing world orders.},
keywords = {crisis, Globalization, Gramsci, international political economy, International Politics, international relations, liberal world order},
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tppubtype = {article}
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The liberal international order (LIO) is in crisis. Numerous publications, debates and events have made it time and again clear that we are in the midst of a grand transformation of world order. While most contributions focus either on what is slowly dying (the LIO) or what might come next (China, multipolarity, chaos?), there is less analytical engagement with what lies in between those two phases of world order. Under the assumption that this period could last years or even decades, a set of analytical tools to understand this interregnum is urgently needed. This paper proposes an analytical framework that builds on Gramscian crisis concepts that will help understanding the current crisis of the LIO in a more systematic way. It adds to a gap in the literature on changing world order by elaborating three Gramsci-inspired crisis characteristics - processuality, organicity and morbidity -
that sketch the current crisis landscape in a systematic way. Building on this framework, the paper suggests different empirical entry points to the study of the crisis of the LIO and calls for a research agenda that takes this crisis seriously as a distinct period of changing world orders. |